A Little Luck at The Masters

We All Know Golf Is A Game Of Skill, But A Little Luck Sure Comes In Handy! Just Ask Angel Cabrera!



The man wearing the Green Jacket today almost gave it away with his ill-conceived second shot on the first playoff hole. Stymied behind a Georgia pine, Angel Cabrera's best chance to stay in the hunt for the Masters title was a chip back into the fairway leaving a chance for an up-and-down par. The shot he tried, a low hook through several trees, had a really low-level chance of being successful and a better than average chance of being disastrous. Angel swung hard, jumped around the tree to watch his ball sail through the trees and roll up onto the green, and promptly lost sight of it when it hit another Georgia pine and caromed who knew where! Certainly Angel didn't know where the ball ended up, he was looking left into the fairway and right into the 10th fairway and behind every tree within his vision trying to see exactly what kind of trouble he had gotten himself into now. But the golf gods were smiling on Angel today! The ball went left off the tree and directly back into the 18th fairway, the same result he would have gotten if he had played the safe "chip-back-to-the-fairway" shot. Angel made his up-and-down par and won the Masters on the second playoff hole.

Please don't get me wrong, Angel Cabrera played very good golf all four days and deserved the win just as much as anyone there. Just as much a Fred Couples did when he won the Green Jacket after his shot on number 12 somehow, inexplicably, stopped on the slope instead of rolling into Rae's Creek as every other shot that was in the same place had done all day. I'm just saying that, good golf aside, a little luck sure comes in handy once in a while!!