Heavy rains that left pools of standing water across Augusta National brought play to a halt at the Masters on Saturday.
"It is what it is," said 63-year-old Fred Couples, who was 1 over after his second round and broke Bernhard Langer's record for the oldest player to make the cut at the Masters."Am I going to look thrilled to play 18 holes this afternoon? No, I'm a wimp. I'm an old wimp. But I'm excited to play."
On Friday, the course was cleared once for 21 minutes by an early band of storms. The air horns sounded again at 4:22 p.m. as another set arrived, forcing the evacuation of patrons and sending players and officials scrambling for cover. "We were cresting the fairway on 15. We thought it was a scoreboard or a grandstand," said Sahith Theegala, who is playing in his first Masters."We were hoping it wasn't something that hit anybody."
"I was talking to friends next to me and all of sudden we heard a crack," said Katie Waites, who was attending the second round from Charleston, South Carolina."And there were three trees across the pond, and all of a sudden we saw them falling and everybody — it was just like ants. They were like, scattering just like ants from beneath. All three fell at the same time. And then I just grabbed my friends' hands we were like, 'Is everyone OK?' And it was silent.
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