The big white scoreboards at Augusta National tell you everything.

Workers with walkie-talkies hide behind them. When they hear about a birdie, they find the slot that corresponds to the player and the hole and they open it, and pop in a red number. All hand-operated, no pixels allowed.

If it’s Sunday and that player is Woods or Mickelson, you can hear the noise erupt sequentially, scoreboard by scoreboard, all through the premises.

The other scoreboards at Augusta National are harder to fathom. They are the aural scoreboards, generated by the eyewitnesses themselves.

When Jack Nicklaus made his 46-year-old charge in 1986, Seve Ballesteros did not need play-by-play. The burgeoning glee was a dirge for him.

Danny Willett was playing the 15th hole in the 2016 Masters, Jordan Spieth was three holes behind. Willett knew Spieth, the defending champion who had led by five with nine holes left, had bogeyed 10 and 11.

He had no idea that Spieth was being swallowed by the 12th, a subtle beast officially known as Golden Bell.

Willett missed a birdie putt on 15. But the scoreboard is unavoidable there, and he soon learned that Spieth had suffered a super-soaker, double-bogey 7. Lee Westwood, Willett’s playing partner, chipped in for eagle.

In a flash Willett was leading Westwood by one and Spieth by two.

“We’ve got five good swings left,” Willett told Jonathan Smart, his caddie. “Let’s see what happens.”

The first good swing created a birdie on 16 and a 2-shot lead. The others created two pars and victory. He shot 5-under-par 67 with no bogeys, and won his first Masters and first major championship.

On the practice green, defending champion Spieth helped Willett put on his green jacket, which is the Technicolor dream coat of sports. It changes everything.

Willett was ranked ninth in the world at that moment. Now he is 17th and hasn’t won since.

“We were being pulled here and there by different things,” Willett said. “I don’t think you’re ever prepared for it. I didn’t realize how chaotic it would be.

“People think you’re a major champion now and you should play well. You see yourself win one of the great tournaments and everyone wants you to play like that, but this isn’t a game where you can do that. I’ll never be able to recreate that week. If I compare every week of my career to that Masters, I’m going to be awfully disappointed.”

A week before, Willett’s wife Nicole gave birth to Zach, whom Willett calls “the little man.” If she had given birth on time, Willett wouldn’t have come to Augusta.

He scrambled to get ready and started 70-74, but it was a cold, windy week, and nothing was easy. After Spieth’s first-round 66, he never broke par 72 again.

Still, Spieth transmitted inevitability as he walked down into Amen Corner.

“We knew the scoring wouldn’t be too daft,” Willett said. “We were behind but that helped us, really. We knew we couldn’t make mistakes.”

Willett is hardly the first player to win a major unexpectedly and struggle with the aftermath. He did not lack credentials. He was third in the World Match Play in 2015 and had two European wins in 2016 before the Masters.

He has only two top 10s since, both in Europe.

“Getting the confidence back has been tricky,” Willett said. “We were hoping to take some time off, but then we had a lot of opportunities, and the Ryder Cup, and it wound up being 32 events. If you add a baby to the mix, you get tired and a little frustrated, and then you hit more balls and work harder, and it just leads to being more tired. But my game is not far away.”

Willett is from Sheffield, an industrial hub in northern England that was devastated in the Battle of Britain. He wears a tattoo on his bicep and a feisty, working-class confidence, reminiscent of Ian Woosnam or Ian Poulter.

As he walked off 15, he realized the best day of his life was hovering. He also was surrounded by thousands who either didn’t know him or were hoping he would lose.

So Willett sought and found solitude. He visited the bathroom between 15 and 16.

“It was quite nice,” he said. “There was no one in there so it was a chance for me to tell myself, look, this is what you practice for.

“And I had been needing it for a few holes. But it’s pretty difficult just to go in the trees at Augusta.”

A year later, he sees the whole forest.