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Rose looked like a man on a mission on the front nine, but faltering on the par-four 11th – pushing his second shot right and then three-putting – stalled his momentum.<\/p>\n
A duffed chip from the sticky fringe at the back of the green on the iconic par-three 12th was followed by another three-putt from an eagle opportunity on the scoreable par-five 13th.<\/p>\n
Unable to recover, a frustrated Rose finished on 10 under and was denied the fourth Masters runners-up finish of his career.<\/p>\n
“It is another little stinger,” said Rose, whose sole major win came at the 2013 US Open..<\/p>\n
“I was by no means free and clear, and nowhere close to having the job done, but I was right in position.”<\/p>\n
Instead it was two-time champion Scheffler who finished as McIlroy’s nearest challenger after carving his own piece of history.<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old American, who won in 2022 and 2024, became the first player since 1942 to card a bogey-free weekend on his way to a fourth successive top-10 finish.<\/p>\n
Ultimately he paid the price for making a slow start, which has been a common theme for him in recent months.<\/p>\n
“I knew I was going to have to do something special if I wanted to catch [McIlroy] or [Young]. I was close but it was just a few shots here or there,” said Scheffler.<\/p>\n
Rose was joined in joint third by England’s Tyrrell Hatton, plus American pair Russell Henley and Cameron Young.<\/p>\n
Hatton’s final-day 66 concluded a weekend where he seems to have made peace with the Masters.<\/p>\n
The 34-year-old’s relationship with Augusta National had been a volatile one, having regularly squabbled with the course’s unrelenting undulations and even going as far as labelling it “unfair” in 2022.<\/p>\n
“This is my 10th Masters, so I’ve been fortunate to be here a lot and my results the last three years have definitely improved,” Hatton said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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