Charl Schwartzel is a person, not a meat dish.

All it took for Rory McElroy to give away his first major, as well as the lead he’d claimed in the 2011 Masters tournament, was 27 minutes.  That’s how long it took for Rory McElroy to start succumbing to the pressure of the stage and to choke away a final round lead.  McElroy’s collapse (he shot 80 for the day and finished up 15th thanks to an 8-over-par final round) led to an interesting final round, in which several golfers shared or held the lead, including Tiger Woods.  The final man atop the scrum was a little-known South Africal golfer named Charl Schwartzel.  Charl Schwartzel is your 2011 Masters champion, despite having a name that sounds like a German sausage dish.

Schwartzel, a 26-year-old who has been a professional golfer since he was a teenager, claimed his first major thanks to a final round 66.  His score, 6 under par, was good enough to win the Masters by two strokes.  Not only is this his first major, this is Schwartzel’s first PGA tour win ever (though he won 6 European tour events in his career).

Meanwhile, Tiger Woods played well, but not well enough to win.  Thus, he’s still not out of the national consciousness.  Also not winning was last year’s Masters winner Phil Mickelson.  Can golf continue to thrive without Woods and Mickelson at the top?  You’d hope so, since the last round of 2011’s Masters in Augusta was so exciting.

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