'I've been dreaming about it for 20 years': Matsuyama savours Masters win

Matsuyama becomes the first male golfer from Japan to win a major and the first Asian to don the green jacket.

Hideki Matsuyama, of Japan, celebrates after putting on the champion's green jacket after winning the Masters golf tournament on Sunday, April 11, 2021, in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

With a weighty exhale of a man who carried the expectations of an anxious nation as a six-shot lead whittled away to one, Hideki Matsuyama lifted his ball from the hole and waved to the world as Japan’s first Masters champion.

After surviving a back-nine rally by Xander Schauffele, Matsuyama only needed bogey on the last hole at Augusta National Golf Club to win.