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Traffic congestion

In order to participate in the Masters, South African Retief Goosen Augusta National golf course in the vicinity of a rented house, but he did not facilitate. Monday’s practice round, the fans flocked to let in Retief Goosen in a major traffic jam. “I live only a mile from here.” Goosen said, “but I spent 45 minutes arrived here.”

Gold putter

At noon Monday at a ceremony held at the venue, the Argentine Cabrera received the ball to PING with a gift to him – a putt-made 18K gold, the gift in full accordance with Cabrera won the U.S. Open last year used to copy the putter, about 15,000 U.S. dollars in value.

End record

Participated in 70 consecutive Grand Slam match, Davis Love III has finally came to a halt the continued record pace. Since 1990 the United States since the Masters did not miss any of the veteran in a Grand Slam Sunday in front of the television will only be able to spend their 44-year-old birthday. At present, still alive in this record from the latest of which was Davis Love III Phil Mickelson’s 56 games, he is 45 games.

I do not know when heavy rain

As in previous years, many players will want to Augusta has been raining non-stop, as the greens they can successfully stop the ball on the greens. But this year’s rains come early for that – under the heavy rain last Saturday, the course placed in the bottom surface of the pumping equipment had to be green dry Tuesday. The weather forecast indicates that only four days of the Games on Saturday are short-lived thunderstorms, other times mostly cloudy or sunny. Competition last year, it is very cold wind blowing hard greens, leading to the final results of the draw to win the worst performance in history.