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AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) When Matt Parziale steps outside of this moment he’s living, a firefighter-turned-Masters golfer, he can understand why everyone finds it so compelling.

This is the sort of over-the-top script they usually come up with in Hollywood.

”It’s incredible,” Parziale said with a chuckle Monday, having just finished a practice round at Augusta National. ”But,” he quickly added, turning serious, ”I don’t see it that way. Because I’ve obviously lived it.”

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Yep, the 30-year-old from Station 1 in Brockton, Massachusetts is taking a break from his regular job, the one where he might put his life on the line most any day against some fearsome inferno, to tee off at the Masters.

Amen Corner can’t seem all that intimidating to someone whose real life involves wading through thick smoke, unable to see what’s right in front of their face, unsure if their next breath might be their last.

Not even Hollywood can do it justice.

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AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) Wesley Bryan believes the golf ball is somewhere in his house a few miles from Augusta National.

It’s probably in a cabinet or a closet. It still might even have Billy Andrade’s pencil markings on it. The Former PGA Tour regular flipped the ball to Bryan a little more than two decades ago during the Masters. Bryan was attending the event with his dad and standing behind the No. 8 tee when Andrade singled him out.

It one of Bryan’s first and fondest memories of the hallowed grounds.

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”It went into the `my cool stuff drawer,”’ Bryan said Monday. ”Stuff that went into the `cool stuff drawer’ seemed to disappear over time when I moved a couple times and I first got married, so I’m not sure exactly what ended up happening to that golf ball. But I bet it’s somewhere. If I looked really hard, I could find it.”

If not, he should be able to able to replace it this week with better memories from golf’s first major of the year.

The 28-year-old Br..

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) The late Hootie Johnson fiercely defended the lengthening of Augusta National during his term as club chairman. The first overhaul added 285 yards after the 2001 Masters, and six more holes were lengthened after the 2005 Masters.

Johnson said the changes were to keep current with the modern game, and he leaned on his own experience.

But he wasn’t playing in March 2005 with a PGA Tour player. He was playing with teenagers.

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”I had a guest down here in March – 17 years old, about 5-foot-10, 160 pounds. He hit pitching wedges into 17 and 7,” Johnson said at the 2005 Masters. ”A lot had been written some years back that we were trying to Tiger-proof our golf course, and we are not worried about Tiger. We are worried about these 17-year-olds.”

That 17-year-old was George Bryan. Also playing that day was his 14-year-old brother, Wesley Bryan, who makes his Masters debut this week.

”I think it was probably more George-proofing at the time tha..

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) The roar sounded like Sunday at Augusta National.

This was Monday afternoon, and it was so sudden and thunderous that it reached the clubhouse. It was loud enough to startle spectators who wondered what they had missed. They had a pretty good idea who it was.

Tiger Woods is back at the Masters.

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Woods teed off with Justin Thomas and Fred Couples shortly before 3 p.m. when thousands of fans were making their way toward the exit. Thousands more crowded around the tee, lined the first fairway and followed him down the par-5 second hole. Some of them rushed over to the third hole to stake out a spot. Most of them surrounded the second green, and they were responsible for all the noise when Woods chipped in from behind the green.

About the only thing missing was a beam of light from the heavens.

Any talk about this being one of the most anticipated Masters in years starts with one player. Woods is at Augusta National for the first time sinc..