Carla Bernat Escuder blocks the rich heritage of Spain Augusta

Augusta, GA – no country outside the United States has produced more master’s winners than Spain.

Seve ballsteros Started the trend in the early 1980s before crossing the stick in José María Olazábal. Sergio Garcia Followed in their footsteps with a victory of progress in 2017, and then, six years later, was Jon Rahm’s turn. Spanish cuisine has become a common fee in annual Champions.

IN 2025 National Augusta Women’s Amateur, Carla Bernat Escuder continued the tradition of Spain’s perfection in the preserved course. With three consecutive rounds of 68 (two in the Champions of Retreat, one in Augusta National), the 21-year-old posted 12 under the money to win what is discussed has become the biggest title in women’s amateur golf with a blow over 16-year-old Asterisk Talley.

Bernat Escuder became the first Spanish woman to stay above the podium on the most famous Golf scene.

“Hopefully it won’t remain like that, because I want more Spanish to reach here and continue to push our country up and down,” she said. “Hopefully I’m not the last.”

Given her record of her compatriots here, this seems impossible.

Entering the last round in Augusta National, the top of the driver’s table was collected.

Lottie Woad, the 2024 champion, once again found himself with 36 holes. Kiara Romero, a former US Champion of American Girls, joined her in the latest pairing. Two other American stars-Megha Ganne and Talley-also in great distance, leaving in front of a mass gallery just before 10am, the penultimate pair, however, passed on their own fans with little fanaticism.

As the defenders surrounding 1, they cheered the defensive champion and trio of American youth Bernat Escuder and its peers, Andrea Revuelta, did not receive the same support. Despite being just one kick from the superiority, the Spaniards started the day as a mirror.

“I felt like a submissive person,” Bernat Escuder said. “But I wasn’t looking at the people who (they were) behind me. I was looking at the winners, they at the top of the manager’s table because it helps me to play better.”

This strategy was paid. Bernat Escuder set off for a perfect start, premeditated in opening two holes. A long noise in the par-3 4 briefly stopped her moment, but she withdrew with a bird at no. 5. It took advantage of the Par-5 8, adding another circle to the card, before it was ready to retire for Eagle to 9th. When Bernat Escuder cleared her short look of birds there, she returned to half the inner just at the top of the table at 11 under.

“One of my friends here, he told me that the tournament will win (on) 12 under,” Bernat Escuder said later. “I just tried to play a nine pretty good holes.”

There is an old cliché about masters who says the tournament does not start up to nine back on Sunday. Bernat Escuder admitted that the adage was falling on her head while she was in the 10th box. In Augusta National, no bullets are safe. Just ask Greg Norman. Or Jordan Spieth. OR Shoemaker Bailey. Despite all the hard work to climb to the top of the leader, Bernat Escuder knew that its advantage could evaporate in an instant.

Her first shot at 10 left her in a good position, but her approach was a little loose. As a natural drawer, she started the ball to the right green and hoped to see it fall left behind. Instead, she moved straight, finally placing the right of Greenside’s bunker.

“I knew the tour began at No. 10,” she said. “So when I hit the second blow to No. 10, I was like, hell.”

There are at least two traits that Spanish players tend to share in common. First, they are usually fiery competitors. Second, they play a inventive golf brand. Seve may be the godfather of creative golf, but he can count many of his compatriots and wives as disciples.

“Of course this place is special to us,” said Olazabal, who was owned on Saturday. “It’s a golf course that requires a lot of distance control with your shackles and a good short game. The Spaniards in general, we manage to have good hands.”

If Bernat Escuder would hope to continue her momentum from the nine front to the closing extension, she will have to channel any part of her right green creativity at 10. The ball placed in the rough slope with a deep bunker between her and her target. Worse still, once its ball done Find the surface of the placement, the wicked slope of the surface will repel it from the cup.

The young Spaniard knew she would be required to pull a blow like this. Her close friend and compatriot, reigning US amateur champion Josele Ballester, had told her just as much. In preparation of the event, the two had worked together to add a high, soft flop to the Bernat Escuder arsenal.

“I really thought about it in that kick,” Bernat Escuder said. “I was like, if there were a kick you would need your hands back to hit it above, as he tells me, it’s that. So, I appreciate that type.”

Bernat Escuder executed the blow to perfection. Although her ball ended about 15 meters from the hole, she would have done well just to keep the ball in green. A few moments later, she rotated her attempt in the center of the cup and released a pronounced fist pump.

Ballester was not in place on Saturday – he was approximately 150 miles in the West at the George’s Golf Club – but he was eagerly following the action while his friend claimed for the title. Although he is preparing for his competition in Augusta National (he won a master’s offer through his US victory), he could not resist leaving to cheer for his old friend.

“We went to high school together for the last three years before we came to the states,” Ballester told Golf.com. “We have practiced every day and went to class together, so we developed a really good relationship. Really really special to see someone so close to you compete in such a big scene.”

With the close disaster of the 10th hole in her back mirror, Bernat Escuder played the perfect golf across Amen Corner and in the closing extension, adding birds to no. 13 and 15 to extend its superiority. A late obstacle in the 17th closed the gap between her and Talley in one, but when Bernat Escuder found green with her approach to par-4 upwards, everything she needed for the title was a two-point.

Bernat Escuder’s delay from the upper green shelf stopped four meters above the hole, but when she was introduced to the most pressurized life of her life, she calmly rotated the ball in the cup to secure her place in history.

“Hard hard to describe with words,” she said. “But I was just so happy and relieved that I did stack.”

When the blow fell, Bernat Escuder could no longer contain her emotions. Tears flowed out of her eyes as she hugged her cadet and the patrons put her with applause. It may have started the day as a mirror, but after posting 12 under – the lowest total in tour history – Bernat Escuder could be ignored no more.

“It feels amazing,” she said. “For now I don’t think my brain has elaborated I have won.”

As the last Spaniard to find success in Augusta, Bernat Escuder was quick to give a knot to those who destroyed the tracks in front of it. One of those dear, Olazábal, was waiting for him outside the note area.

“He was just saying, congratulations and that he looked at some of the golf I played today,” she said. “It means everything because he is such a symbol for Spain.”

And now, so, too, is Bernat Escuder.