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Over the next two weeks, FanHouse will be delivering any and all awards for the 2009 PGA and LPGA Tour season. It will be a collection of anything that needs to be awarded, from Player of the Year, to Best Shot of '09 to Breakthrough Twitterer. It is, simply named, The Green Jacket awards. The saying goes, "I'd rather be lucky than good," and anyone that has been paired with a random twosome on a beautiful summer day has probably heard it after a bounce goes their way or a high lip decides to let the ball in the side-door.
On the PGA Tour, that saying holds true just like for any hacker -- a guy hits a poor tee shot only to have it kick off the lip of the bunker, roll through the second cut and find itself perched up in the fairway, awaiting a short iron to set up another birdie. The biggest breaks usually come in the biggest tournaments, and 2009 was no different. So what was the luckiest break of the year?
That award goes to El Pato, or Angel Cabrera. Heading into the final round of the Masters, Cabrera was tied with Kenny Perry atop the leaderboard, and after a clutch birdie on the 16th hole, and a bogey-bogey finish by Perry, the 2007 U.S. Open champion found himself in a playoff with Perry and Chad Campbell. An errant tee shot on the par-4 18th, the first playoff hole for the threesome, looked to doom Cabrera, but then came the golf gods, here to help out the Argentenian.
Standing in the thick pines guarding the right side of the 18th fairway at Augusta National, Cabrera was trying to punch his way back into play, hoping to muster up a par and pray the other two wouldn't make a three. His punch out was miss-hit, but caught a tree as solid as Cabrera usually catches his tee shots, shooting straight left into the middle of the 18th fairway. His third shot settled six feet from the hole and he calmly rolled in the par putt, matching Perry's four.
The next playoff hole, the long par-4 10th, saw Cabrera make a simple four, and claim his second major championship. Without the lucky bounce off the tree, Angel would have never had a chance for a par and would have been watching as the then 48-year-old Perry tried on his first green jacket.
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