Augusta, Georgia | After early setbacks, Jon Rahm, the towering Spaniard who dominated the PGA Tour in 2023’s first months, won the US Masters on Sunday (Monday AEST), overcoming days of punishing humidity, plunging temperatures, green-saturating rains and tree-toppling winds, as well as that Thursday mess on No. 1, to claim his second career major championship.

His victory, beneath an eggshell blue sky, came after he began the final round trailing Brooks Koepka, a four-time major winner who missed the Masters cut last April, by two strokes.