DiMarco the ?hard-luck? guy

After two back-to-back heartbreaking losses at the US Masters, Chris DiMarco could go down in history as the unluckiest player to have competed at Augusta National.
If there was any doubt about the 36-year-old American being golf's reigning hard-luck guy, a playoff loss to Vijay Singh at last year's PGA championship confirmed it.
For a second consecutive year, DiMarco played in the final group at the Masters and yet again he had a ringside seat for two of the greatest clutch putts in Masters history ? neither of them his.
After waging a gripping duel with Tiger Woods over the final nine holes on Sunday, DiMarco stared blankly as he watched his rival roll in an 18-foot putt on the first extra hole to secure his fourth green jacket.
A year earlier, DiMarco had stood on the same 18th green in the same Georgia twilight and watched Phil Mickelson make the same putt to lift his first Masters title and shed the label of best player never to have won a major.
"It would hurt if I gave it away but I didn't. I really didn't," said DiMarco, the first player to lose a playoff in back-to-back majors since Tom Watson at the 1978 PGA and 1979 Masters.
"I played him as hard as I could down the stretch, birdieing a bunch of holes coming in on the back nine and putting it on him.
"So if I would have went out and shot 41 this afternoon, I would be very disappointed.
"But since I went out and put a good number on the back nine, I feel very good.
"This year I was ready to win, to tell you the truth.
"I really felt like I could win it. And coming out the way I did, I will be ready to win next year. "
If it had not been for a moment of Masters magic from Woods, DiMarco believes he would have been celebrating his maiden major.
With his lead down to a single stroke, Woods conjured up a miracle birdie on the par-three 16th, holing out from 40 yards off the green with a delicate chip that fed back 25 feet down the slope.
The ball appeared to hover tantalisingly over the edge of the hole before, a second later, it dropped into the cup to become one of the most memorable shots in Masters history.
Two holes later on the 18th, the green jacket could have belonged to DiMarco had his chip from the fringe dropped in for an equally improbable birdie.
Thousands of spectators crowded the green in silence as DiMarco's club swished through the grass then gasped in excitement as the ball bounced off the flagstick and rimmed the cup.
As the ball came to a standstill, a stunned DiMarco fell to his knees in disbelief before he regained his composure to knock in a short par putt to set up the playoff.
"This is such a game of, you know, a missed putt here, a missed thing here," offered a philosophical DiMarco. "If you go back to two really big points in the whole day, it was his chip-in on 16, and my chip on 18.
"That had every right to go in the hole, I don't know how it didn't go in." ? AP