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Danny Willett reflects on how Masters win changed his life

Winning the Masters is an obvious life-changing event. But for this year's winner, Danny Willett, it was the second most rewarding thing that happened to him during that whirlwind of a week.

Willett, 28, almost missed the event entirely after his wife went into labor and the Englishman decided he would leave the course wherever he was on the leaderboard to be with his wife if she had the baby during the Masters.

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Thankfully for Willett, his son was born before the tournament started and he was able to play and eventually win after Jordan Spieth collapsed on the inward nine on Sunday.