"It all came down to a shot by Pat Perez on the 18th hole at Bay Hill that cleared the rocks framing the water by about a foot."

Doug Ferguson explains how Davis Love just missed out on qualifying for the Masters. Surely there must be a better method than using the Official World Golf Ranking:

Love fell out of the top 50 in the world ranking Sunday 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 rocks framing 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, who already was eligible for the Masters, enough points to move up to No. 48 and knock Love out of the top 50.

The field was, however, rounded out with some nice and certainly worthy international additions:

This week’s world ranking was the cutoff for the top 50 to qualify for the Masters, and four players earned invitations—Alvaro Quiros of Spain (No. 25), Prayad Marksaeng (No. 47), Mathew Goggin of Australia (No. 49) and Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa (No. 50).

The only remaining ticket to Augusta National is to win the Shell Houston Open this week.