Jordan Spieth wins the 2015 Masters

The 21-year-old claimed the green jacket and made history in the progress.

Jordan Spieth, playing in just his second Masters tournament, earned his first green jacket and first major championship Sunday by nailing down a wire-to-wire victory at Augusta National.

Spieth, at 21, the second-youngest Masters winner of all time (older only than Tiger Woods, in 1997), fired a final-round 70 for a four-shot cushion over runner-ups Justin Rose and Phil Mickelson.

Spieth began Sunday’s final round with a four-shot lead over 2013 U.S. Open champ Justin Rose and five better than Phil Mickelson, who was seeking his fourth Masters triumph. Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, the marquee pairing, even on a day when Spieth was making an historic run, began the day 10 strokes back and never caught up.

For anyone who feared Spieth, who came in second at Augusta in 2014, might let up on his childhood quest for a green jacket, he put such concerns to rest on the par-4 first hole. Rose drained his first putt for an 11-foot birdie and the leader immediately answered with his own birdie from 12 inches closer.

There were some knee-knockers, like the bogey mess Spieth made of the par-4 fifth hole as Rose made par. But Spieth’s nerveless par save from the woods on the par-4 11th and nearly foolhardy no-lay-up on the par-5 13th pretty much said it all and the rest, as they say, is, literally, history.

Spieth won the pole position by posting 64, 66, and 70 in his first three rounds, shattering several records along the way.

Spieth’s record-smashing week by the numbers:

21: Youngest-ever 18-hole leader in Masters history

64: 2nd-lowest Masters opening round

14-under: Lowest 36-hole score to par in major championship history

130: Lowest 36-hole score in a Masters. Ties 36-hole total score in a major (since Floyd was 13-under in 1976)

200: Lowest 54-hole score in Masters history (16-under)

28: Most birdies in a Masters (Broke previous mark with No. 26 on 10th hole on Sunday, set new one on No. 15)

18-under: Only second player to reach that score in a Masters (Tiger Woods 1997)

270: Tied for lowest 72-hole score in Masters history (18-under)

For good measure, Spieth was the first Masters champ to take the lead on Thursday and never give it up since Raymond Floyd went wire-to-wire in 1976.

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