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So all you odds makers out there can have your Tiger Woods, who certainly will win more Masters titles before he's through. But not this year. This year the ghosts are angry at the notion that anybody could think The Masters could ever be a ten-man tournament. The CBS ads call The Masters "a tradition like no other," and this is a year where traditional golfing values will be rewarded. It is a little-known fact that Justin Leonard and Davis Love III were the last two major players to give up the tradition of persimmon woods and move to the newfangled metal alloys. If everybody had stuck with the real woods, tournament organizers would not have needed to lengthen the course in the first place.

And first place is where I have a hunch either Love or Leonard will be when the cheers finally stop echoing among the dogwoods and pines.

Quin Hillyer is executive editor of The American Spectator. He can be reached at hillyerq@spectator.org.

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