Matsuyama

A decade ago, a teenage Matsuyama had been the lowest-scoring amateur at the 2011 Masters.

To me, considering his rocky start, then factoring in the way his lead rapidly dwindled in the evening, perhaps we should rank Matsuyama’s self-control, his ball-striking and his resolution as part of a genuinely remarkable Masters Sunday.

Moments before he finished his front nine, Matsuyama’s closest pursuer, Will Zalatoris, bogeyed the 10th hole to fall back to 8 under.

“I spent the hour sitting in my car looking at my cellphone,” Matsuyama, who was tied for third at 5 under when play was suspended for rain, told CBS’s Jim Nantz through an interpreter.