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“I was sitting, looking, waiting for the next group to come up to the tee and it fell maybe 8-10 chairs to our left,” spectator Megan Hill, of Manhattan, New York, told the outlet. “I stood up and screamed and thought, ‘Is it going to fall on me?’ It fell to the left of us and it was so scary. If the wind had been blowing a slightly different direction, we might have got hit.”
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Play was then suspended for the second time that day due to thunderstorms in the area and expected heavy winds and rain.
“It sounded like a grandstand blew over, super loud,” Garcia told theChronicle. “Two trees fell down from the routes and took another one on the way down. People scattered around them but there was one woman that the trees fell around her and somehow she didn’t get hurt. Thank God.”
“Pinecones were hitting us in the back, we turned around and looked up and heard a huge cracking noise and the tree basically crushed 10 chairs that were sitting there,” Deshey Thomas, from Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina, told the outlet. “Luckily we got everyone out of there. We were blessed.”
The tournament organizers also halted play earlier Friday for 21 minutes due to severe weather in the area.
The2023 Masters Tournamentruns from April 6-9 in Augusta, Georgia. Brooks Koepka currently is in the lead at 12 under par.
source: people.com
