Kenny Perry stood on the right side of the first green at Augusta National Sunday afternoon, leaning on his putter, paying little attention to anything else. Not 15 feet from him, Angel Cabrera stood behind his ball, quickly jerking his putter back and forth. Both players' heads were pointed toward the ground for about 30 seconds until they looked up and caught the other's glance.

It was at that point both realized they were waiting for each other — "Oh, sorry," Perry said, noticing he was away — signaling a conclusion to just one of the waiting games that ended at the 2009 Masters.

On a heavenly Easter Sunday at Augusta National, golf fans stopped waiting for the roars and the fun to return, stopped waiting for the choir to come back to church; Argentina, meanwhile, stopped waiting for the green jacket it first set eyes on 31 years ago, when Roberto De Vicenzo inadvertently signed for a higher score and finished second by a stroke.  "After what happened with Robert (in 1968), golf increased a lot in Argentina," fellow Argentine Andres Romero told Golfweek through a translator, biting his nails while watching his friend survive a sudden-death playoff with Perry and Chad Campbell. "And I can't imagine what will happen now with this victory with golf in Argentina."

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