With a shot only he could hit, @bubbawatson wins the Masters in a playoff

Bubba Watson wins 2012 Masters in playoff against Louis Oosthuizen

golf.com 09 Apr '12, 12am

With a shot only he could hit, @bubbawatson wins the Masters in a playoff

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- One man made history, but the other, playing alongside the first, refused to resign himself to spectator status and wound up making history of his own. After a day of wild momentum swings, Bubba Watson was the last man standing to win the 76th Masters, rendering an artful par from the trees on the second hole of a playoff with Louis Oosthuizen at Augusta National on Sunday. “I’ve never had a dream go this far, so I can’t really say it’s a dream come true,” said Watson, who never made worse than bogey all week and closed with six birdies and two bogeys Sunday. It was the fourth career victory and first major title for Watson, 33, who at one point trailed his playing partner by five strokes. Oosthuizen holed his 253-yard second shot, struck with a 4-iron, for the first ever double-eagle on the par-5 second hole, seizing control of the tournament, but Watson n...

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