Wild weather sees towering pine trees fall near spectators at Augusta, as Australia's hopes at The Masters fade.
abc.net.au/news/australian-hopes-fade-at-the-masters-for-jason-day/102202130Three towering pine trees fell near patrons as storms rolled through Augusta National in the second round of The Masters, though nobody was hurt as the tournament ground to a halt with heavy wind and rain rolling through the area.American Brooks Koepka sits alone at the head of the field, at 12 under parThe course was cleared once for 21 minutes by an earlier band of storms. The air horns sounded again at 4.
"We were cresting the fairway on 15. We thought it was a scoreboard or a grandstand," Sahith Theegala, who is playing in his first Masters, said.Everyone escaped harm, but the close call was evidenced by several crushed chairs beneath the fallen pines. Waites said she saw one woman standing between the two fallen trees, and she had heard that a man had crawled out from beneath some of the limbs. She added that it was "absolutely a miracle" that nobody was hurt."I called my dad. He's a judge. And he said this time they are not going to open it back up. Get out of there now."Day loses hope with second round disaster
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