The 28 year old South-African Trevor Immelman has become the winner of the 2008 Masters at Augusta. With a final round of 75 Immelman came to a total of 280 (8 under par) and therefore became the first South-African since Gary Player to win a Major.

An operation was needed to remove a non-cancerous tumor lodged beneath his ribs. This was only 4 months ago and after that he could only do some chips and putting for weeks. Now Immelman took on the famous Green jacket and took home a cheque for $ 1,350,000 after being on top of the leaderboard for 4 days.

Three strokes behind Immelman ended Tiger Woods. The Worlds number 1 started the day 6 strokes behind Immelman. His final round of 72 was not enough and therefore Woods ended on a total of 283, directly followed by Brandt Snedeker and Stewart Cink on 284.