10 Apr 2012

Masters champion up to 4th in world rankings

7:32 am on 10 April 2012

Golf's new major champion Bubba Watson has improved 12 places to fourth in the world rankings, and he's on top of the PGA tour money list after his sensational win yesterday at the Masters tournament in Augusta, Georgia.

The self-taught left-hander pulled off a freakish recovery shot from the woods on the 10th hole to win the green jacket in a playoff with the 2010 British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen who had made a sensational start to his round with an albatross - a two at the par-5 second hole.

Oosthuizen felt then it could be his day, but it seemed to work against him as it took him about five holes to get it out of his mind.