Some Masters notes, each in honor of a hole (including each hole’s name) on Augusta National’s Second 9.

10. Camellia: The happiest of all the shuttle drivers so far this week has been Victoria, who found love in her back yard. It was just us two on a five-minute lift from a press parking lot to the media building. At the different security shacks, she called the guards “honey” and you could tell they all knew her. She’s been married three times. “The first one was no good,” she said. She got a daughter from it “but other than that, nothing.” She “really loved” her second husband, three months from retirement when he was killed doing his job. On an 18 wheeler, he hauled golf carts all over the south. Dropping a load in Florida, a strap broke and he was crushed by the carts. Everyone kept asking, for months, how she was, so finally she decided to have a party at her home so they could all see how she was doing. “I told them it was BYOB but if they drank, I’d hide their keys and they could come back the next day and get them,” she said. One of those guys was a friend of a friend who’d lost his wife to illness that year, so they had much in common and talked about their happy marriages. One evening he asked to come over, and he asked her out to dinner. “He came to my back yard,” Victoria said, “and I haven’t been able to get him to leave!” They’ve been married 18 years. Next year when he’s 60, they’ll retire. She’s 70. “Younger man,” she said.
11. White Dogwood: Ken, my Georgia friend and a volunteer gallery guard on No. 1 for more than a dozen years, told me this story from Thursday’s opening round. That morning, Jason Day hit left off the tee and tried to sort of duck-hook a ball onto the green, except it didn’t hook enough and ended up landing where no one ever hits it, just right of No. 1 green. More precisely, the ball hit a limb and dropped onto the shoulder of a seated patron, and then into the patron’s cup of beer. The patron laughed and set the beer down by his foot, which the rules guy on the hole, who showed up fairly quickly, said was the exact right thing to do. Day picked up the beer, pretended he was going to drink it, asked the guy if he wanted the rest of it, and the patron chugged it and then poured Day’s ball back to him. Day made a bogey 5, signed the drunk ball and gave it to the patron.
12. Golden Bell: I was crossing No. 15 crosswalk in 2013 when a ball flew into a gift bag being held by a patron walking beside me. He stopped because he’d heard a noise and didn’t know what had just happened; “I think a ball just flew into your bag,” I said. The guy stopped and started laughing and the rules guy showed up and here we go. The guy who’d hit it was China’s Guan Tianlang, a 14-year-old golf whiz and special invitee who made the cut; he’d teed off on 14 and lost his shot way right.
13. Azalea: I met four guys from San Diego who visited Augusta National for the first time Thursday. Two were by No. 1 crosswalk early that morning and here comes their buddies with beers for them all. They were very excited, and it wasn’t because of the beer. One of them said they’d been checking the weather for two weeks: one day the two-week-out forecast said 80-percent chance for rain for Thursday, then it would be clear, then 50-percent chance. These are grown young men-like little kids getting to run the bases at a big-league park. They sweated it out but were not disappointed; Thursday was perfect.
14. Chinese Fir: My favorite story of the week is this. I wasn’t there but another gallery volunteer was on the No. 1 tee box guy for a practice round and an international player was about to go off and asked his caddie for a ball. “I don’t have a ball,” the caddie said. “I thought you had the balls.” The pro said, “I thought YOU had the balls.” The caddie took off for the members’ pro shop—about 100 yards away—to purchase a dozen, then came running back. They are pros, but they are still human. Good thing it was only practice.
15. Firethorn: Larry Mize, local hero and 1987 Master champ largely remembered for his chip-in on 11 in the Sunday playoff to beat Greg Norman, missed his first cut since 2015 this weekend. 1988 champ Sandy Lyle missed the cut on the number. Angel Cabrera, beaten in a playoff by Adam Scott three years ago, didn’t make the cut. Some older champs who didn’t play the weekend include Ian Woosnam and Mark O’Meara (78-81), who announced after Friday’s round that he’s played his final competitive round here.

16: Redbud: Tiger Woods shot his first under-par round of the tournament Sunday, a 3-under 69, and finished the tournament at 289, 1-over. Phil Mickelson shot 79-75 Friday and Saturday but finished Sunday with a 67 and 2-over for the tournament.

17. Nandina: The media lottery has been drawn, and 28 lucky guys will play Monday with caddies furnished by the club. (I’m eligible to enter next year; you are eligible seven years after you’d played, and I was lucky all those years ago.) A long time ago, every media could play on Monday; that got out of hand as you might imagine. I met Tom today, who works for Masters.org, and he chose to caddie on such a long-ago day day and drew an Asian videographer who was terrible at golf and who videoed every spot he hit from. Long day for Tom; tough way for Tom to make 25 bucks.
18. Holly: It’s the 60th anniversary of the term “Amen Corner,” which originated from the typewriter of Herbert Warren Wind. More about that later? Probably so. Amen.