Angel Cabrera Wins Masters In Playoff Over Perry
13/04/2009 05:59
Viva Argentina! Cabrera captures green jacket that Roberto DiVicenzo ‘blew’ back in 1968 back to Argentina
Angel Cabrera made par on the second playoff hole to defeat Kenny Perry and win the 2009 Masters championship in a dramatic finish at Augusta National Golf Club.
Cabrera is the first player from Argentina to win the Green Jacket. It's his second career major title, following his triumph at the 2007 U.S. Open at Oakmont, Pennsylvania.
For Perry, it was a terrible collapse as he had a two stroke lead on the 17th tee before bogeying the last two holes and allowing Cabrera and Chad Campbell into a three-man playoff. Campbell was eliminated on the first playoff holes after he made bogey, while the other players saved par.
The 48-year-old Perry was looking to become the oldest player ever to win a major championship. Cabrera became the 18th Masters champion out of the last 19 winners to have played in the final pairing.
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SWIVEL HIPS SAYS:
Wow, folks, more than any other that I can remember, this Masters was a day of missed opportunities – for Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Chad Campbell and, most of all, for Kenny Perry – just to name a few. I’m not really a big Angel fan, and it’s not so much he won it as . . .