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victories in the 1927 British Open and the
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triumphant from a playoff
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with Kenny Perry to
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win his second major
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approached to see if Augusta National
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Coming into 2009, the Masters has been decided
might host a U.S. Open. Jones’ prestige
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by playoffs 12 times. The number rose to 13 last
year when Argentina’s Angel Cabrera parred the
notwithstanding, the USGA declined,
second playoff hole to beat Kenny Perry. The
arguing that the summer heat would
third member of the playoff, Chad Campbell, was
eliminated on the first playoff hole, the par-4
result in poor course conditions. (The
18th. Open would not be played south of the
Cabrera drove into the trees along the right side Mason-Dixon Line until 1941, when it was
of the hole but managed to salvage par, as did
Perry, who missed the green with his approach.
played at the Colonial Country Club in
Campbell, who hit his approach into the right
Fort Worth, TX). The club did host the
greenside bunker, failed to get up and down
first two PGA Seniors’ Championships in
and faced the short, if lonely, walk back to the
clubhouse.
1937 and 1938, but whatever publicity the
On the second playoff hole, the par-4 10th, Perry
club gained paled in comparison to what
missed the green to the left while Cabrera hit
hosting the Open might have garnered.
the green in regulation and, after Perry made
a bogey, two-putted for the victory—a nice
Interestingly, the winners, Jock Hutchison
bookend to his win at the 2007 U.S. Open.
and Fred McLeod, became the long-time
“It’s a course that you can do a lot of birdies honorary starters at the Masters.
and a lot of bogeys,” Cabrera said. “A lot of
magical things happen. It’s simply the Masters.
Against this backdrop, the club decided
This is a great moment, the dream of any to hold a tournament of its own, so in 1934,
golfer to win the Masters. I’m so emotional I
the first Augusta National Invitational was
can barely talk.”
held. Legend had it that the tournament
All three players withstood the pressure of
fierce final-round rallies by Tiger Woods and
began as essentially an informal gathering
Phil Mickelson, who had gone out well ahead of
of Jones’ friends and former competitors
them. Mickelson shot a 30 on the front nine and T
finished with a 67 to post a 9-under-par 279.
with a purse thrown in as more of an H
Woods birdied No. 16 to get to 10-under par but
afterthought more than anything else. Be
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ran out of steam and finished with back-to-back
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bogeys to tie for sixth at 8-under par.
that as it may, many of the invitees were
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Cabrera trailed Perry by two strokes with two
still among the best players in the game. R
holes remaining in regulation play, but Perry let Almost as important in terms of publicity
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him off the hook by making bogeys on Nos. 17
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(from the edge of the green) and 18 (from off the
was the fact that the tournament’s spring
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green) to allow a playoff. From that time on, if
date allowed many of the nation’s top
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only in retrospect, the tide seemed to be running
sportswriters who were heading back
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inexorably in Cabrera’s favor.
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north after baseball’s Spring Training to 1
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cover the tournament.
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