“If the wind had been blowing from a slightly different direction, we might have been hit,” one spectator told the Augusta Chronicle
The normally quiet atmosphere of the Masters tournament gave way to the screaming of the crowd after a large tree near the 17th hole was toppled by spectators, narrowly missing them.
Shortly after Sergio Garcia putted nearby, the tree fell to the ground and the spectators scattered. No one was injured, the Augusta Chronicle confirmed.
“I was sitting there watching and waiting for the next group to tee off and the ball dropped maybe 8 to 10 chairs to the left of us,” spectator Megan Hill of Manhattan, New York, told the outlet. “I stood up and screamed and thought, ‘Is it going to drop on me?’ It dropped to the left of us and it was so scary. If the wind had been blowing a little bit different, we might have been hit.”
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Due to thunderstorms in the region and the expected strong winds and rain, the game was then interrupted for the second time that day.
“It sounded like a grandstand was being blown over, super loud,” Garcia told the chronicle. “Two trees fell off the route and took another one with them. People ran around them, but a woman was knocked over by the trees and somehow wasn’t hurt. Thank God.”
“Pine cones hit us from behind, we turned around, looked up and heard a loud crack and the tree basically crushed 10 chairs that were there,” Deshey Thomas of Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina, told the outlet. “Luckily we were able to get everyone out of there. We were lucky.”
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Due to the storms in the region, the tournament organizers also interrupted the games on Friday for 21 minutes.
The 2023 Masters Tournament will take place from April 6-9 in Augusta, Georgia. Brooks Koepka is currently in the lead at 12 under par.
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