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SPORTS A17
Tuesday 5 April 2016

5 of the ROYAL
TREATMENT
biggest routs
KC downs Mets 4-3 in season opener
in Masters
In this April 13, 1997 file photo, Masters champion Tiger Woods re-
history ceives his Green Jacket from Nick Faldo at the Augusta National
Golf Club in Augusta, Ga. Woods won the Masters by 12 shots, at
DOUG FERGUSON the time the largest margin of victory in any major since the 1899
AP Golf Writer U.S. Open.
AUGUSTA, Georgia (AP)
— Jordan Spieth won Associated Press
the Masters by four shots
last year, and he made it
seem easy.
He became the first wire-
to-wire winner since Ray-
mond Floyd in 1976. Per-
haps even more telling
was that Spieth was the
first Masters champion
since Craig Wood in 1941
to never let anyone closer
than three shots of his lead
after the opening round.
It could have been worse.
Spieth had a three-putt
bogey on No. 12, and he
missed a short par putt on
the 18th hole that would
have given him the Mas-
ters record. Instead, he
tied Tiger Woods (1997) at
18-under 270.
It was a dominant victory,
to be sure. But it still doesn’t
make the list of the biggest
blowouts in Masters history.
5. CARY MIDDLECOFF: One
round was all it took for
Middlecoff to build a big
lead and coast to his first-
Masters title.
The story going into the
1955 Masters was Sam
Snead and Ben Hogan,
who had combined to win
the previous four Masters.
Middlecoff stole the spot-
light in the second round
with four straight birdies
for a 31 on the front nine,
and then an 80-foot eagle
putt on the 13th hole that
carried him to a 65. It gave
him a four-shot lead over
Hogan, and that was all
Middlecoff needed. He
and Hogan each shot 72
in the third round, and Mid-
dlecoff stretched his lead
to six shots going to the fi-
nal nine.

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