Who is a good bet to win the 2009 Masters at Augusta National Golf Club?
culptured out of arable farmlands, and boasting names like ‘Amen Corner’, Sarazen Bridge and Pink Dogwood, the spectacular Augusta National Golf Club course is home to the first Major of the year, the US Masters Golf Tournament. The fairways and greens are surrounded by pine and flowering magnolia trees that date back to the dawn of the event, and the botanical theme continues with each hole being named after a shrub or tree. An estimated 80 000 plants have been added to the US Masters Augusta National Golf Club over time, making it a veritable paradise, but also one of the most difficult golf courses in the world. Many of Augusta National Golf Club’s landmarks are steeped in history. Rae’s Creek is named after pioneer, John Rae, who is credited with keeping the early residents, who chose to live outside of Fort Augusta, safe from the marauding Indians. Sarazen Bridge guards the auspicious 15th hole where Gene Sarazan shot an incredible double eagle to win the second Masters in 1935, a
The Masters delivered the show everyone wanted and a champion no one expected. Angel Cabrera became the first Argentine to win the green jacket at Augusta National on Sunday by surviving a wild final round that began with a supercharged duel between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson and ended with a stunning collapse by Kenny Perry. Indeed, this Masters had it all. Two shots behind with two holes to play, Cabrera fought his way into a three-way playoff when the 48-year-old Perry, on the verge of becoming golf’s oldest major champion, bogeyed the final two holes. Even in a playoff, Cabrera looked like the odd man out. He drove into the trees, hit another shot off a Georgia pine, but still scrambled for par with an 8-foot putt. He won with a routine par on the 10th hole when Perry missed the green badly to the left and made yet another bogey, this one the most costly of them all. “I may never get this opportunity ever again, but I had a lot of fun being in there,” Perry said. “I had the tou
