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— The vacuums were humming in an empty Augusta National clubhouse when the man on the wrong side of the most thrilling Masters finish in decades finally left the building.
Angel Cabrera waddled through the door with a plastic Masters cup in his hands — contents unknown, but beer was a safe bet — and out into a light drizzle toward a waiting Mercedes.
Then, very suddenly, he stopped in the dark parking lot. Did he want to reflect on a tournament that nearly cemented his legacy as an all-time champion? To take one last look at the site of an incredible finish in which Adam Scott had ripped a green jacket off his back?
Nope. He lit a cigarette.
And then he was on his way.
"Angel said, ‘,nfl jerseys for cheap;You finish second, you’re just the first loser,’?" his coach Charlie Epps had said a few moments earlier, but it was hard to feel like anyone lost Sunday as the sun set on this famous course.
This was everything good about golf after a week spent railing about the bad stuff. No penalties for slow play. No moralizing about illegal drops. Just one man with the weight of a continent on his shoulders in a playoff against a grandfather who played like he hadn’,[url=]cheap nfl jerseys onsale[/url];t a care in the world.
History rarely remembers the loser, but that won’t be the case with the 43-year-old Cabrera,nfl jerseys for china. The man they call "El Pato" (the duck) was standing in the 18th fairway when Scott sank one of the clutch putts in golf history, a 20-footer that set off a raucous celebration around the green.
Everyone, it seemed, was suddenly Australian, and the familiar chant —,mlb jerseys; "Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!" — rang across the course as Scott high-fived the rain-drenched fans.
The scene would have been enough to shake any player, even a two-time major champion like Cabrera. But he answered with a 7-iron that rolled to within three feet of the cup. Scott,nike cheap nfl jerseys,nfl authentic jerseys, who had just marched with an Australian flag in his hand to the scoring cabin, heard the roar inside.
The putt was a foregone conclusion. Cabrera took that same path to the scoring cabin, grabbing his caddie and son,nike [url=]nfl jerseys cheap[/url], Angel Jr., in a headlock as they walked. He had become a grandfather in November, a moment that Epps said "gave him a lift like nothing else."
He needed it. He had not won a PGA event since surviving a playoff here in 2009, dropping to 269th in the world rankings — below even John Daly. This was a rebirth for his career,nike [url=]cheap nfl jerseys[/url], and that he could enjoy the moment with his son on his bag made the week even more special.
"Just father-son love," Epps said. "That’s special,authentic cheap nfl jerseys. He would have been a father-son moment like Nicklaus-Nicklaus."
So the Masters came down to a playoff between one golfer with six-pack abs and one who’s had a few six packs. That they both made par on the first extra hole from nearly the exact same spot off the green seemed perfect.
Then, on the second playoff hole, Scott hit a booming drive that Cabrera countered with a line-drive 3 iron that rolled to a perfect spot. As they walked down the 10th fairway, Cabrera turned to the younger man and gave him a thumbs up. Scott, who had choked away the British Open on the final four holes last summer, smiled back.
"Angel is a great man," Scott said. "That was a nice gesture."
Cabrera putted first, a 15-footer that touched the lip and somehow stayed out of the cup. One more turn of that golf ball, and maybe the two golfers go to another hole. One more turn, and maybe it would be Cabrera celebrating as the most unlikely three-time major winner.
That is how close this was. Cabrera,cheap jerseys, who grew up so poor in Argentina that he stole chickens from a farmer’s coop to feed his family, was a gust of air from history. Scott sank a 12-footer to win it, and then the loser graciously wrapped the winner in a long hug.
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Cabrera finished his interview and waited in a small holding area. Scott, wearing his new green jacket, walked up the metal staircase and greeted the man that he had just defeated one final time.
And, one more time, Cabrera held out his left arm with his thumb raised,cheap nhl jerseys. Scott reached back and grabbed the Argentine’,wholesale jerseys;s forearm for a moment. This was his turn now, to discuss a victory that will change his career,cheap nfl jerseys custom.
Cabrera was back out the door a moment later,cheap jerseys mlb, back on a golf cart,nfl jerseys supply. "It’s all right, Angel," somebody yelled as he motored back up the path into the dark. He’d leave 15 minutes later, a victory lost but a moment in Masters history secure. It was time for dinner.
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"Probably liquid."
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