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Green Jacket Research Paper

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The Difference of One A green jacket is being worked for in one of the most famous Professional Golf Association (PGA) tournament introduced in 1934, at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia and titled, The Masters. Generally, in a tie, it only took one playoff hole for a winner to be decided, until Angel Cabrera and Adam Scott faced each other on April 14, 2013. After a grueling ten hours of watching PGA golfers play to their best ability in rainy weather as if a monsoon was going to hit from the Atlantic coast, a winner to receive the infamous $250, Cincinnati-made, forest green jacket was hoped for. However, a winner was not yet decided. On hole 72 of a 72-hole tournament, Scott approached the lovely manicured green leaving himself a putt of about twenty terrifying feet. From a distance, Cabrera could tell with his Argentinian …show more content…

Now it was time for hole 10 at Augusta to be played. With even more nagging nerves, Scott and Cabrera teed off on Camellia, the 495-yard par four that starts the back nine. It seemed like miles to the hole, until each drove their ball in the freshly moist fairway leaving them both spectacular angles of approach. For both players, the baffling bunkers were in play on the right side of the green, but that had no effect of intimidation since these players were as confident as a cheetah stalking its crippled prey. Cabrera was the first to putt on the green, giving Scott more time to plan his attack. With caddie help, Cabrera knew what must happen for him to win. Grabbing his trusty putter, he stroked the ball with just enough force to cause it to travel the correct distance, but his aim was off by less than a piece of hair leading to a missed putt. Scott, in a win-tie situation, decided to be mentally strong and clutched his slippery putter. Once more, the ping of the contact foreshadowed a famous event to

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