Jordan Spieth presents Danny Willett the Masters green jacket in awkward Butler Cabin scene
The Englishman gets the biggest prize in golf from the man whose back nine meltdown opened the door.
Cheers to Danny Willett, who just clinched the biggest win of his life. But this had to be one of the more dramatic and brutal green jacket ceremonies ever given the circumstances.
The man who presented the jacket, Jordan Spieth, held a five-shot lead over Willett just a couple hours prior and was cruising to his second straight Masters win. He would have been just the fourth ever repeat winner, joining Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, and Nick Faldo. But two balls in the water at the 12th, an historic implosion that will go down in Masters history, opened things up completely and Willett was there with the round of the day to take the green jacket. Spieth still looked in shock in Butler Cabin.
Willett is the second Englishman to win the jacket, joining Nick Faldo, a three-time winner who got his last in 1996 thanks to comparable meltdown from Greg Norman. He’s been hailed as an up-and-coming world-class talent and now he’s got the most coveted garment in golf.
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