The Masters may well be a tradition like no other, as Jim Nantz always says, but it hasn't been much of a tournament the last couple of years. The Sunday roars were gone because it played like a U.S. Open. Trevor Immelman wins with a final round 75 last year. That's okay in June, but not in April and not in Augusta.

Bad weather might have been part of the reason for the bad golf, but not the only reason.

The Masters is back to where it should be now.

Angel Cabrera gets a green jacket to go with his U.S. Open Title.

A sloppy finish, but a great Masters.

It was 41 years ago another man from Argentina lost his chance at a green jacket because he signed a wrong scorecard. Tommy Aaron couldn't keep score. Roberto DeVicenzo didn't check.

It does seem like a silly rule in golf that the players have to keep score. No other sport does that, but then no other sport is played with the integrity this game is either.

Players call penalties on themselves when nobody knows. Imagine if we let players in any other sport do that.

That's why golf is such a great game, not the greatest game to many of you but it is to me.

And while it's not perfect, and certainly hasn't always been, there is no other game that matches the ideals of sport the way golf does when played at the highest level and played the right way.

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