Rose looked like a man on a mission on the front nine, but faltering on the par-four 11th – pushing his second shot right and then three-putting – stalled his momentum.

A duffed chip from the sticky fringe at the back of the green on the iconic par-three 12th was followed by another three-putt from an eagle opportunity on the scoreable par-five 13th.

Unable to recover, a frustrated Rose finished on 10 under and was denied the fourth Masters runners-up finish of his career.

“It is another little stinger,” said 2016 Olympic champion Rose, whose sole major win came at the 2013 US Open.

“I was by no means free and clear, and nowhere close to having the job done, but I was right in position.”

Instead it was two-time champion Scheffler who finished as McIlroy’s nearest challenger after carving his own piece of history.

The 29-year-old American, who won in 2022 and 2024, became the first player since 1942 to card a bogey-free weekend on his way to a fourth successive top-10 finish.

Ultimately he paid the price for making a slow start, which has been a common theme for him in recent months.

“I knew I was going to have to do something special if I wanted to catch [McIlroy] or [Young]. I was close but it was just a few shots here or there,” said Scheffler.

Rose was joined in joint third by England’s Tyrrell Hatton, plus American pair Russell Henley and Cameron Young.

Hatton’s final-day 66 concluded a weekend where he seems to have made peace with the Masters.

The 34-year-old’s relationship with Augusta National had been a volatile one, having regularly squabbled with the course’s unrelenting undulations and even going as far as labelling it “unfair” in 2022.

“This is my 10th Masters, so I’ve been fortunate to be here a lot and my results the last three years have definitely improved,” Hatton said.