AUGUSTA, Ga. -- The four-day Survivor episode that was the 71st Masters Tournament produced an appropriate winner.

Zach Johnson, whose determination took him from the Drake University golf team to the Hooters Tour to the Nationwide Tour and finally the PGA Tour, donned the green jacket of the Augusta National Golf Club early Sunday evening.

Johnson shot a 3-under-par 69 in Sunday's final round to post a 1-over total for the tournament. That 289 total for 72 holes is the highest winning score in 51 years. Jack Burke shot the same score in capturing the 1956 Masters.

Johnson finished two strokes in front of Tiger Woods, Retief Goosen and Rory Sabbatini. All three led the tournament at one point Sunday afternoon before Johnson birdied three holes in a five-hole span on the second nine to take control.

Johnson led by as many as three strokes down the stretch, only to make a bogey at No. 17.

A par save at No. 18 allowed him to remain two shots ahead, though, and ultimately clinched the victory. He missed the 18th green right with his approach shot, leaving his ball a couple yards short of a bunker. He chipped to within six inches of the cup and tapped in for par.

Johnson played in the third to last group, finishing in front of Woods, Justin Rose, Padraig Harrington and 54-hole leader Stuart Appleby.

Knowing the score they were chasing, Rose and Woods had chances to catch Johnson. Rose birdied Nos. 15 and 16 to get to 2-over and stood on No. 17 tee knowing a birdie in his last two holes would force a playoff.

Rose preceded to slice his tee shot into the trees right of the 17th fairway. The ball ricocheted off a Georgia pine and landed in the 15th fairway. He smashed his second shot back across the 17th fairway and made double bogey.

Woods, meanwhile, stumbled at No. 15, while Johnson was still playing No. 18. Woods hit his second shot at the par-5 into the water hazard fronting the green. Yet he saved par and played No. 16 knowing he was two shots off the lead.

But second shots at Nos. 16 and 17 doomed him. He missed a 12-foot birdie putt at the par-3 16th hole and hit his approach shot at the par-4 17th into the bunker fronting the green.

"Honestly, what the hell just happened?" Woods yelled to his caddie following the shot. "It was downwind."

Woods' shot at a second Tiger Slam went down, too. He came in the winner of the 2006 British Open and PGA Championship. A Masters victory would have left him needing only to win the U.S. Open to complete the unofficial grand slam.

Woods has held all four major championship titles at the same time previously in his career. He won the U.S. Open, British Open and PGA Championship in 2000 followed by the 2001 Masters.

This feat, not considered a true grand slam because the victories failed to come in the same calendar year, was dubbed the Tiger Slam.