Ending Season on a Positive note.
Ashley Wilson
Issue date: 4/29/09 Section: Sports
An angel appeared in Augusta, Georgia on Easter Sunday to win the 2009 Masters Golf Championship. For the first time in the history of the prestigious Masters Tournament, a golfer from Argentina became this year's champion. The 39 year-old, Angel Cabrera, won the Masters in a three-man playoff by topping Americans Kenny Perry and Chad Campbell.
It was the fourteenth time a Masters Tournament was decided in a playoff; the eighth since the Masters went to the sudden-death format in 1976. With this win, Cabrera has won his second major tournament. Leading up to this year's Masters, Cabrera had not captured any tournament since the 2007 U.S. Open. Angel had fallen to sixty-ninth in the world rankings, but with his victory he vaulted to 18th.
Looking comfortable for most of the week, Perry bogeyed three of the last four holes he played, including a 16 foot miss on the seventy-second hole that would have earned him his first major title. The 48 year-old Perry said "it just seems like when I get close to winning a major tournament, I can not execute." Don't feel too sorry for Perry. Though he has never won a major tournament, he is currently ranked third this year with earnings of $2,612,263.
Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods, who are regarded as the two top golfers in the world, were teamed up together for only the seventh time in a major championship. Seven shots back when the last day began, both nearly stormed all the way back before faltering at the end.
Both made spectacular shots in pursuit of another Masters Championship. Mickelson tied the front-nine record shared by three others, with a six-under par of 30. "It was a very emotional day because it's up and down a lot of highs and lows," said Mickelson, the two-time Masters Champion, who posted his twelfth top-ten finish at Augusta.
Woods is winless in four straight Masters after being the champion in four of the first six he played. He was obviously disappointed because the Masters is the championship that he covets the most.
The results may not have been predicted, but it was a good Easter Sunday, especially for the new Masters Champion, Angel Cabrera.
It was the fourteenth time a Masters Tournament was decided in a playoff; the eighth since the Masters went to the sudden-death format in 1976. With this win, Cabrera has won his second major tournament. Leading up to this year's Masters, Cabrera had not captured any tournament since the 2007 U.S. Open. Angel had fallen to sixty-ninth in the world rankings, but with his victory he vaulted to 18th.
Looking comfortable for most of the week, Perry bogeyed three of the last four holes he played, including a 16 foot miss on the seventy-second hole that would have earned him his first major title. The 48 year-old Perry said "it just seems like when I get close to winning a major tournament, I can not execute." Don't feel too sorry for Perry. Though he has never won a major tournament, he is currently ranked third this year with earnings of $2,612,263.
Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods, who are regarded as the two top golfers in the world, were teamed up together for only the seventh time in a major championship. Seven shots back when the last day began, both nearly stormed all the way back before faltering at the end.
Both made spectacular shots in pursuit of another Masters Championship. Mickelson tied the front-nine record shared by three others, with a six-under par of 30. "It was a very emotional day because it's up and down a lot of highs and lows," said Mickelson, the two-time Masters Champion, who posted his twelfth top-ten finish at Augusta.
Woods is winless in four straight Masters after being the champion in four of the first six he played. He was obviously disappointed because the Masters is the championship that he covets the most.
The results may not have been predicted, but it was a good Easter Sunday, especially for the new Masters Champion, Angel Cabrera.
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