The final day of the 2009 Masters certainly unfolded in a bizarre fashion, but after Kenny Perry pulled his second shot on the 10th hole left of the green and failed to get up and down, Angel Cabrera had two putts to win the tournament on the second sudden-death playoff hole and became the last golfer standing in a Sunday slugfest at Augusta.Argentina's Angel Cabrera has won his second major after a nerve-jangling playoff victory at the US Masters, becoming the first South American to claim the prized Green Jacket.
Perry seemed locked to win the tournament, holding a two-stroke lead with just two holes to play, but he finished bogey-bogey down the stretch, allowing playing partner Cabrera and Chad Campbell to join him in a sudden-death playoff.
The most bizarre circumstance surrounding Cabrera's win -- outside his Sunday yellow becoming the "new red" -- might be his early Sunday play: he shot an inexplicable one-over on the front-nine Sunday, bogeyed 10 and appeared poised to free fall from the leaderboard before rattling off three birdies on the final six holes.
His first playoff hole was no less odd, as Cabrera managed to hit his second shot off a tree before scrambling back for a par that extended his hopes of winning the green jacket to the 10th hole.
The win was Cabrera's second major in the past three years -- in 2007 he was the first Argentinian to win the U.S. Open -- as he became the first Argentinian to don a green jacket in Augusta's rich history.
And as surprising as watching Cabrera storm back to win was, it seems like a pretty fitting ending considering the insanity that consumed Augusta on Sunday.
FINAL LEADERBOARD
Final round scores in the US Masters at the par-72 Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia on Monday:
276 Angel Cabrera (Argentina) 68 68 69 71 (Cabrera wins in second hole of sudden-death playoff), Kenny Perry (US) 68 67 70 71, Chad Campbell (US) 65 70 72 69
278 Shingo Katayama (Japan) 67 73 70 68
279 Phil Mickelson (US) 73 68 71 67
280 John Merrick (US) 68 74 72 66, Steve Flesch (US) 71 74 68 67, Tiger Woods (US) 70 72 70 68, Steve Stricker (US) 72 69 68 71
281 Hunter Mahan (US) 66 75 71 69, Sean O'Hair (US) 68 76 68 69, Jim Furyk (US) 66 74 68 73
282 Camilo Villegas (Colombia) 73 69 71 69, Tim Clark (South Africa) 68 71 72 71
283 Geoff Ogilvy (Australia) 71 70 73 69, Todd Hamilton (US) 68 70 72 73
284 Aaron Baddeley (Australia) 68 74 73 69, Graeme McDowell (Britain) 69 73 73 69
285 Nick Watney (US) 70 71 71 73
286 Paul Casey (Britain) 72 72 73 69, Ryuji Imada (Japan) 73 72 72 69, Trevor Immelman (South Africa) 71 74 72 69, Rory McIlroy (Britain) 72 73 71 70, Sandy Lyle (Britain) 72 70 73 71, Justin Rose (Britain) 74 70 71 71, Anthony Kim (US) 75 65 72 74, Stephen Ames (Canada) 73 68 71 74, Ian Poulter (Britain) 71 73 68 74, Rory Sabbatini (South Africa) 73 67 70 76
287 Ross Fisher (Britain) 69 76 73 69, Stuart Appleby (Australia) 72 73 71 71, Larry Mize (US) 67 76 72 72, Dustin Johnson (US) 72 70 72 73, Vijay Singh (Fiji) 71 70 72 74
288 Ben Curtis (US) 73 71 74 70, Ken Duke (US) 71 72 73 72, Padraig Harrington (Ireland) 69 73 73 73
289 Robert Allenby (Australia) 73 72 72 72, Henrik Stenson (Sweden) 71 70 75 73, Luke Donald (Britain) 73 71 72 73, Sergio Garcia (Spain) 73 67 75 74
290 Bubba Watson (US) 72 72 73 73
291 Lee Westwood (Britain) 70 72 70 79
292 Dudley Hart (US) 72 72 73 75
293 DJ Trahan (US) 72 73 72 76
294 Kevin Sutherland (US) 69 76 77 72, Mike Weir (Canada) 68 75 79 72, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spain) 70 73 78 73
297 Andres Romero (Argentina) 69 75 77 76
298 Rocco Mediate (US) 73 70 78 77
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