Tiger Woods has completed one of the great sporting comebacks - winning the Masters at Augusta, to take his 15th major title
Although it is the first major Woods has won starting a final round behind the lead, he showed his once-dominant self when he took the outright lead with a two-putt birdie on the par-5 15th and never looked back.
He stiffed his tee-shot at the par-3 16th to tap-in range for a birdie, before a regulation par on 17 allowed Woods to bogey the 72nd - and he used all five strokes on that hole. Woods, 43, became the oldest champion at Augusta since Nicklaus captured his sixth and final Masters aged 46 in 1986. Woods will move to No.6 in the world rankings - less than two years after he was ranked 1,199 and contemplated retiring from golf due to ongoing back injuries.Meanwhile, Adam Scott, the 2013 Masters champion, , Marc Leishman and Cameron Smith rounded out the Australian contingent.
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