Horror scenes at the Masters this morning as multiple trees collapsed during the play. 😲😲 9WWOS TheMasters
suspended play for the second time in the day just moments after the frightening incident."We were cresting the fairway on 15. We thought it was a scoreboard or a grandstand," said Sahith Theegala, who is playing in his first Masters. "We were hoping it wasn't something that hit anybody."
Everyone escaped harm, but the close call was evidenced by several crushed chairs beneath the fallen pines."I was talking to friends next to me and all of sudden we heard a crack," said Katie Waites, a patron from Charleston, South Carolina. "And there were three trees across the pond, and all of a sudden we saw them falling and everybody — it was just like ants. They were like, scattering just like ants from beneath. All three fell at the same time.
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."Then the alarms went off and they evacuated again because of weather," Waites said. "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.
Australian amateur Harrison Crowe and world No.48 Min Woo Lee were less than 50 metres away from the collapse, putting on the 16th green.Koepka currently leads Spain's Jon Rahm and American amateur Sam Bennett who round out the top three on the leaderboard.Stream the US Masters forTournament officials returned to the course with chainsaws after players and fans were evacuated from the area.
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