The Long Shot!

By Kim Metsgar
June 19, 2007

When the final round of the U. S. Open kicked off Sunday, Angel Cabrera was not on any list as a possible winner...he had not ever even won a major tournament yet, so Tiger Woods was the expected winner.

I had said from day one it would be Tiger Woods or Jim Furyk, but Sunday's outcome just shows that "on any given day, any player can win."

Cabrera toughed it out on probably one of the hardest courses possible and faltered a time or two but continued through his 18 holes and posted his score.

Tiger and Furyk knew what they needed to do...birdie, birdie to force a playoff or birdie, birdie, birdie to win.

Tiger's magic wand, his putter, sputtered and he came up one stroke short of the victory. Jim Furyk is the runner up again.

I wonder if Angel Cabrera had a special blanket to cover up the trophy when he went to bed that night...do you think he stared at that trophy all night long?

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