Unofficially, golf season really starts with the Masters.
And the season began with fireworks at Augusta.
Adam Scott beat Angel Cabrera in a playoff to cap what had been a Sunday of ordinary golf but a tournament with different story lines not only every day but seemingly at every meal of each day.
“The Masters gets people excited about playing golf again,” Moccasin Bend head pro Devere Keller said Monday. “The courses are getting better, the weather is getting better and the Masters brings it all together to kick it off.”
The lasting image of the 2013 Masters will be one of Scott celebrating – after his tying putt in regulation, raising his hands skyward when he won or at some point while wearing the green jacket.