The Masters: No injuries as three trees fall at Augusta | Play suspended due to storms

Course had already been cleared for 21 minutes earlier within the spherical, and the air horn sounded once more at 4.22pm native time as one other set of storms arrived; two monumental pines fell close to the seventeenth tee field, sending the patrons within the space scattering for canopy

Two pine bushes fell close to patrons throughout storms at Augusta on Friday, and one other tree fell elsewhere, although no person was injured because the second spherical of The Masters was suspended.

The storms had been anticipated all through the day, and match officers moved all beginning instances up half-hour within the hopes of getting the second spherical in as scheduled.

The morning dawned scorching and humid, with loads of solar, but it surely gave technique to ominous clouds churning by means of from the east shortly after the lunch hour.

The course had already been cleared as soon as for 21 minutes when the primary band of storms handed by means of the world, and the air horn sounded once more at 4.22pm native time as one other set of storms arrived, bringing heavy rain and the specter of lightning.

Concerning the time the horns sounded, two monumental pines fell close to the seventeenth tee field, sending the patrons within the space scattering for canopy.

Authorities examine the scene the place bushes fell on the seventeenth gap

Staff rapidly arrived with chainsaws to start clearing the fallen bushes.

Brooks Koepka was the chief at 12-under when play stopped, making the most of fortuitous tee instances that left him within the clubhouse lengthy earlier than the storms arrived. Jon Rahm was three pictures again in second, with 9 holes nonetheless to play.

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