Augusta, Ga. -- He couldn't see the green. After 73 holes, after thinking he had won once and being forced to duel with Angel Cabrera until they both faced birdie putts in the second hole of a playoff, Adam Scott tried to read the most important putt any Australian ever has faced and thought he might as well be blindfolded.
In what must be considered a cruel joke Down Under, he had to call in a New Zealander. "I really couldn't see it," Scott said later. "I had to ask Steve."
Stevie Williams, the former Tiger Woods caddie who now works for Scott.
Scott guessed he'd have to aim his birdie putt a bit outside of the hole. Williams insisted he needed to aim much farther out. Scott took him at his word and poured in a 15-footer, then turned to Williams and screamed his nation's favorite slogan: "C'mon Aussie!"
"Under the circumstances," Scott said, "I didn't think he'd mind."
After four days of golfing sprawl, Adam Scott and Angel Cabrera made the Masters seem claustrophobic Sunday afternoon. They birdied the 18th hole to send the tournament to sudden-death holes, then fired shots that could have been mistaken for one another in the rain and gloaming, in their quest for the famous green rainjacket. They would create one of the most dramatic finishes in Masters history.
After Cabrera's approach found the 10th green, Scott followed with a 6-iron that settled pin-high, and Cabrera turned and gave him the thumbs-up sign. Minutes later, they were hugging on the green, after Scott become the first Australian to win the Masters, only nine months after he bogeyed the last four holes to lose the British Open.
Then Scott found and hugged his father, who also was his first golf instructor. "He said, 'It doesn't get any better than this,' " Scott said.