Still, Tiger should have talked to the media and I don't say that just because I am a card carrying member of the media. I say that because he is the number one player in the world, this is his fourth event back, his first major since the win at the US Open last year at Torrey Pines and he "moves the needle" like no other golfer since Jack Nicklaus. Suck it up, go into the interview room, spend 20 minutes, give a little and then get out of town. Instead, we got less then three minutes with Bill Macatee from CBS where the quotes were, "it was a real battle out there today," it was "strange all day" and "the number was 11."

Yes, you're Tiger Woods and yes you're frustrated that things didn't go the way you planned, but that is the game of golf and most of what makes it great. You didn't play nearly good enough and for most of the day you were in the mix and except for a few swings, could have come away with your fifth green jacket.

For his efforts this week, Kenny Perry is rewarded with the fact that this was his Masters to lose so much more than it was Angel Cabrera's to win.

Perry spent most of the day in front, going out in even par 36 and then seemingly taking hold of the Masters with birdies at Nos. 12, 15 and a beauty inside of six inches on No. 16. However, two things happened on the inward nine holes at Augusta National that doomed Perry's chances of becoming the oldest major champion in the history of the game. The Kentuckian bogeyed Nos. 17 & 18 and Angel Cabrera would not go away. Cabrera would fight back from a 1-over 37 in the final round with birdies on Nos. 13, 15 and 16 to come in at 3-under 34 and finish regulation in 1-under par 71, good enough for a tie atop the leaderboard with Chad Campbell, who shot a 3-under par 69 on Sunday to secure his spot in the sudden death playoff, and Perry who would finish his round bogey-bogey.

While hosting the coverage of the John Deere Classic last year for the PGA Tour Network on Sirius 209 and XM 146, I was there when Kenny Perry, who won that event in a playoff, had a similar chip to the one he missed on No.17 Sunday afternoon at Augusta National. Following the round, he spoke candidly about the skull shot at 17 and how the same thing had happened at the JDC. It is little consolation that the 2009 Masters would be his first top ten at Augusta National and that he would be back in 2010 by virtue of his finish.

Eighteen of the last 19 Masters winners have come from the final pairing and in the end, this Masters was no exception. Angel Cabrera used the Nicklaus method to secure his second major championship, by hanging around the lead and not letting the tournament get away from him. This was the 14th playoff in Masters history and the first three-man playoff since 1987 (Larry Mize, Greg Norman & Seve Ballesteros). The 39-year old Argentinean was rewarded for his efforts with the Green Jacket and a standing invitation to be part of the first major championship event of each professional golf season for the rest of his life.

Next up is the PGA's version of their major championship, The Players from the TPC at Sawgrass, where Sergio Garcia is the defending champion. The major championship golf season is underway.