Gotta love those Masters playoffs. Or game of hot potato when the talent isn't up to the task. Hey, a green jacket is ugly...and of course one of the most coveted items in all of sports. Tonight, its being specifically tailored for cigarette loving Argentine, Angel Cabrera. But if he could speak English I doubt he'd be bragging much to his new mean green brotherhood about the way he fearlessly crossed over into their world.
2-time Major winner ('07 US Open, '09 Masters)
Let's face it, Kenny Perry should be wearing the pool table clothed blazer. He's not because he choked. Leading by two strokes with just two holes to play the 48-year-old Perry needed just a pair of pars to become the oldest winner in Masters' history. Imagine, eclipsing Jack (at 46, maybe the greatest winner ever) in Augusta National's record books? Holy shit. Now back to reality. That kinda thing is usually too good to be true, and of course it was, again. As per when the money's on the line and a typically average player is asked to deliver...it doesn't happen. Hey, I expected nothing less from Perry, Cabrera, even Chad Campbell who might have the toughest time swallowing Sunday's debacle. This guy was in the scorers trailer thinking about what to order for lunch when Perry's clutch-time clumsiness offered him more than fries or onion rings, but an opportunity legends are made of. Campbell of course, with Augusta National's famous clubhouse and FRIES (onion rings too greasy) on the tip of his tongue, quickly squandered on the rushed 73rd hole what could have been his greatest moment in golf.
I hate to criticize any playoff at Augusta. Remember Tiger's ridiculous extra time chip in 2005? Its also how Mike Weir won his title back in 2003, but that too was a sloppy win, by a marginal player, over a fringe pro. Speaking of... where is Len "its all coming out now" Mattice these days?
Sunday's sudden death finale went two additional holes just like that Weir-Mattice epic six years ago. And in similar fashion the winner, Cabrera this time around, clinched it all with an anti-climatic BOGEY. To think, this BUST could have been a BEAUTY had Tiger and Phil, who had us going there for a bit, not run out of steam just when golf fans around the world began to pick it up.
None of the final three will ever forget the 2009 Masters. The rest of us probably won't remember it past next week.
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