Activities Sports & Athletics 2013 Masters Adam Scott sheds 'best without a major' label Share PINTEREST Email Print Adam Scott lets out a celebratory yell at the 2013 Masters. Harry How/Getty Images Sports & Athletics Golf Golf Tournaments Basics History Gear Golf Courses Famous Golfers Baseball Basketball Bicycling Billiards Bodybuilding Bowling Boxing Car Racing Cheerleading Cricket Extreme Sports Football Gymnastics Ice Hockey Martial Arts Professional Wrestling Skateboarding Skating Paintball Soccer Swimming & Diving Table Tennis Tennis Track & Field Volleyball Other Activities Learn More by Brent Kelley Brent Kelley is an award-winning sports journalist and golf expert with over 30 years in print and online journalism. Updated November 04, 2019 Adam Scott erased his name from those "best golfers without a major" lists by winning the 2013 Masters in a playoff over Angel Cabrera. Scott also became the first Australian golfer to win The Masters, improving on his own second-place finish in 2011, and upending the history of Greg Norman's near-misses and collapses at Augusta National Golf Club. For Scott, it was his ninth career PGA Tour victory, and his first major in his 49th time playing in one of the four professional majors. Cabrera had only two PGA Tour wins entering the tournament - but both of them were majors, including the 2009 Masters that he won in a playoff. But here, Cabrera was a playoff loser. Scott and Cabrera were tied at 8-under as both played the 72nd hole, Scott on the green and Cabrera in the fairway. So Cabrera had a great view of Scott's 20-foot birdie putt to finish at 9-under 279, and knew he had to birdie himself to force a playoff. Cabrera played a fantastic approach to a couple feet from the pin and knocked in the short putt to tie Scott. The two golfers proceeded to a sudden-death playoff, starting on Augusta's 18th hole. Both parred. They moved on to a second extra hole (Augusta's No. 10). Both hit great approach shots. Cabrera's 15-foot putt just missed, stopping about an inch from dropping into the cup. Scott then putted from 12 feet, and his putt was pure. When it dropped in the cup, he threw his arms in the air in celebration as the 2013 Masters champion. Two other things will be well-remembered about this Masters. First, a 14-year-old amateur not only played in the tournament, but made the cut, the youngest to accomplish both feats. Tianlang Guan, from China, opened with a 73 and added a 75 to make the cut on the number. Then he added weekend rounds of 77 and 75, finishing at 12-over 300, in 58th place. Did we mention that he was 14 years old? He lowered the record for youngest to make the cut in a major by almost two years. And second: The Tiger Woods ruling. Woods was in contention, three behind midway leader Jason Day, after two rounds. He signed for a 71 in the second round. But a rules incident arose around his actions on the 15th hole in the second round. Woods' approach into the par-5 green hit the flagstick and bounced back into the water. He walked back to the spot of the shot and dropped to re-play the shot with a 1-stroke penalty. But Woods later revealed in a post-round interview that he dropped about two yards behind the original spot, rather than "as nearly as possible" the original spot as called for by Rule 26-1. That meant Woods played from a wrong spot, and a 2-stroke penalty. But Woods didn't realize his mistake on Friday, and nobody from The Masters' rules committee notified him of the problem until Saturday morning - long after he had signed what was, in retrospect, an incorrect scorecard. A controvery arose over whether Woods would be disqualified, but in the end he was assessed the 2-stroke penalty and allowed to continue playing under Rule 33-7 (committee's discretion to waive disqualification). The penalty dropped Woods from three behind the leaders to five back. And although he shot two sub-par rounds on the weekend, he never threatened the leaders over the final two rounds. Cabrera and Brandt Snedeker were the third-round co-leaders, one stroke ahead of Scott. Cabrera shot 70 in the final round, Scott 69, but Snedeker faded with a 75. 2013 Masters ScoresResults from the 2013 Masters golf tournament played at the par-72 Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia (p-won playoff; a-amateur): p-Adam Scott 69-72-69-69--279 $1,440,000 Angel Cabrera 71-69-69-70--279 $864,000 Jason Day 70-68-73-70--281 $544,000 Tiger Woods 70-73-70-70--283 $352,000 Marc Leishman 66-73-72-72--283 $352,000 Brandt Snedeker 70-70-69-75--284 $278,000 Thorbjorn Olesen 78-70-68-68--284 $278,000 Matt Kuchar 68-75-69-73--285 $232,000 Lee Westwood 70-71-73-71--285 $232,000 Sergio Garcia 66-76-73-70--285 $232,000 John Huh 70-77-71-68--286 $192,000 Tim Clark 70-76-67-73--286 $192,000 Ernie Els 71-74-73-69--287 $145,600 David Toms 70-74-76-67--287 $145,600 Dustin Johnson 67-76-74-70--287 $145,600 Fred Couples 68-71-77-71--287 $145,600 Nick Watney 78-69-68-72--287 $145,600 Branden Grace 78-70-71-69--288 $116,000 Henrik Stenson 75-71-73-69--288 $116,000 Jason Dufner 72-69-75-73--289 $89,920 Gonzalo Fern.-Castano 68-74-73-74--289 $89,920 Bo Van Pelt 71-74-70-74--289 $89,920 Steve Stricker 73-70-71-75--289 $89,920 Bill Haas 71-72-74-72--289 $89,920 Freddie Jacobson 72-73-72-73--290 $56,040 Richard Sterne 73-72-75-70--290 $56,040 Michael Thompson 73-71-79-67--290 $56,040 Rory McIlroy 72-70-79-69--290 $56,040 Luke Donald 71-72-75-72--290 $56,040 Stewart Cink 75-71-73-71--290 $56,040 Charl Schwartzel 71-71-75-73--290 $56,040 Justin Rose 70-71-75-74--290 $56,040 Jim Furyk 69-71-74-76--290 $56,040 Bernhard Langer 71-71-72-76--290 $56,040 Zach Johnson 69-76-71-75--291 $41,200 Martin Kaymer 72-75-74-70--291 $41,200 John Senden 72-70-75-74--291 $41,200 D.A. Points 72-75-72-73--292 $32,000 Brian Gay 72-74-74-72--292 $32,000 Vijay Singh 72-74-74-72--292 $32,000 Paul Lawrie 76-70-75-71--292 $32,000 Ryo Ishikawa 71-77-76-68--292 $32,000 Ryan Moore 71-72-81-68--292 $32,000 Robert Garrigus 76-71-72-73--292 $32,000 Rickie Fowler 68-76-70-78--292 $32,000 K.J. Choi 70-71-77-75--293 $23,307 David Lynn 68-73-80-72--293 $23,307 Thomas Bjorn 73-73-76-71--293 $23,307 Lucas Glover 74-74-73-73--294 $20,800 Peter Hanson 72-75-76-72--295 $19,480 Trevor Immelman 68-75-78-74--295 $19,480 Jose Maria Olazabal 74-72-74-75--295 $19,480 Bubba Watson 75-73-70-77--295 $19,480 Sandy Lyle 73-72-81-71--297 $18,320 Phil Mickelson 71-76-77-73--297 $18,320 Scott Piercy 75-69-78-75--297 $18,320 Keegan Bradley 73-73-82-69--297 $18,320 a-Tianlang Guan 73-75-77-75--300 Kevin Na 70-76-74-81--301 $17,920 John Peterson 71-77-74-80--302 $17,760 Carl Pettersson 76-70-77-81--304 $17,600 Return to list of Masters Winners Continue Reading