Playing at Augusta National is every golfer's dream. Fans, as well as most golfers, believe that this is the biggest golf tournament, and winning it has special importance for everyone.
Phil Mickelson, an experienced figure of the golf scene, managed to celebrate three times at this tournament, having great memories of this tournament.
The famous LIV Golfer decided to tell quite an interesting story regarding Augusta National before one of the LIV tournaments. Namely, Mickelson recalled an incident that could have huge consequences for everyone.
Ill give you a little Augusta story, if I may, while weve got a minute. I was playing a practice round there one year. It was two weeks prior to the tournament. Probably nobody even knows that this happened. But two weeks prior to the tournament, Im playing the 11th hole, Im back lining up my tee shot, and I see this tree on the left fall over right in the middle of the fairway, crash down, like right by the group in front of us. They were probably 100 yards away. This massive Georgia pine comes down, rips up the fairway and so forth.- he said, as quoted by Macon.
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However, what particularly impressed the experienced golfer was the reaction of the workers who solved this problem in a short period of time.
By the time I had walked from my tee shot into the fairway, I could hear on the walkie-talkie Get off of 2, get to 11, get off of 4, get to 11. One hundred workers, I dont know how many there were a number of workers piling in, racing to this tree, firing up the chainsaws, started cutting this thing down.
This says enough of the seriousness of this competition, and the willingness of all participants to ensure perfect conditions and solve possible problems.
Although sometimes it is quite difficult to create a perfect environment in which there will be no unexpected things, it is clear that the leaders of Augusta National strive for this.
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Mickelson said that probably no one knew about this incident.
