14/4/13 – Adam Scott wins US Masters Golf

This morning Peter went for a cycle to find the ‘missing link’ which would complete his circumnavigation of the bike path around the northern tip of Manhattan.  Three hours later he returned tired but triumphant. Tick that one off his ‘to do’ list! Now he is going to turn his attention to finding a way to cycle around the southern half of the island.

Later in the day we went to the Australia Bar to watch the rugby as we’d heard that the Western Force had defeated the Crusaders the previous day. I know - simply amazing! Could this day get any better? Well as it turned out the other event on the TVs in the Australia Bar was the Master’s Golf Championship at Augusta, Georgia. Despite the rain it turned out to have a quite exciting ending.

For the first time in 77 years, an Australian won the masters. Well done, Adam Scott! (or as you yourself said 'you bloody bewdy'). How good it was sit to be sitting in an American bar surrounded by other Aussies watching one of our countrymen doing so well. In fact it wasn’t just one Aussie doing well, Jason Day and Marc Leishman didn’t do so badly either! But all credit to Adam – he putted wonderfully and maintained a steady hand during that nerve-racking playoff with the veteran Argentinean Angel Cabrera.