Love has one more shot at Masters
Associated Press
ORLANDO, Fla. — Davis Love III needed someone else's misfortune to get into the Masters.
He almost got it.
Love fell out of the top 50 in the world ranking yesterday by four-hundredths of a point, and it all came down to a shot by Pat Perez on the 18th hole at Bay Hill that cleared the water by about a foot.
Perez was able to play his next shot from short of the green and made bogey to tie for fourth. That gave Perez enough points to move up to No. 48 and knock Love out of the top 50.
The only remaining ticket to Augusta National is to win the Shell Houston Open this week.
MASTERS QUALIFIERS
The 96 who have qualified and are expected to compete in the 73st Masters, April 9-12 (players listed in only one category):
Masters champions: Trevor Immelman, Zach Johnson, Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods, Mike Weir, Vijay Singh, Jose Maria Olazabal, Mark O'Meara, Ben Crenshaw, Bernhard Langer, Fred Couples, Ian Woosnam, Sandy Lyle, Larry Mize, Craig Stadler, Tom Watson, Fuzzy Zoeller, Gary Player, Raymond Floyd.
U.S. Open champions (five years): Angel Cabrera, Geoff Ogilvy, Michael Campbell, Retief Goosen.
British Open champions (five years): Padraig Harrington, Todd Hamilton.
Players Championship (three years): Sergio Garcia, Stephen Ames.
U.S. Amateur champion and runner-up: a-Danny Lee, a-Drew Kittleson.
British Amateur champion: a-Reinier Saxton.
U.S. Amateur Public Links champion: a-Jack Newman.
U.S. Mid-Amateur champion: a-Steve Wilson.
Top 16 players and ties from 2008 Masters: Stewart Cink, Brandt Snedeker, Steve Flesch, Miguel Angel Jimenez, Robert Karlsson, Andres Romero, Nick Watney, Lee Westwood, Paul Casey, Stuart Appleby, Sean O'Hair.
Top eight players and ties from 2008 U.S. Open: Rocco Mediate, D.J. Trahan, Carl Pettersson, John Merrick.
Top four players and ties from 2008 British Open: Ian Poulter, Henrik Stenson, Greg Norman.
Top four players and ties from 2008 PGA Championship: Ben Curtis, Camilo Villegas.
Top 30 players from the 2008 PGA Tour money list: Kenny Perry, Anthony Kim, Justin Leonard, Robert Allenby, Jim Furyk, Ryuji Imada, K.J. Choi, Kevin Sutherland, Ernie Els, Steve Stricker, Chad Campbell, Boo Weekley, Ken Duke, Dudley Hart, Hunter Mahan.
Winners of PGA Tour events that award full FedEx Cup points since the 2008 Masters: Adam Scott, Chez Reavie, Pat Perez, Dustin Johnson, Y.E. Yang.
The field from the 2008 Tour Championship: Billy Mayfair, Briny Baird, Tim Clark, Bubba Watson.
Top 50 players from the final 2008 world ranking: Justin Rose, Martin Kaymer, Ross Fisher, Luke Donald, Shingo Katayama, Graeme McDowell, Rory Sabbatini, Jeev Milkha Singh, Aaron Baddeley, Rory McIlroy, Oliver Wilson, Richard Sterne, Soren Hansen, Lin Wentang, Soren Kjeldsen.
Top 50 players from world ranking published a week before the 2009 Masters: Alvaro Quiros, Prayad Marksaeng, Mathew Goggin, Louis Oosthuizen.
Special foreign invitations: Ryo Ishikawa.
