Lucky fan gets souvenir from super stroke

When Louis Oosthuizen threw his albatross ball into the crowd on the second green, a little piece of Augusta history landed on one lucky patron’s lap.

Wayne Mitchell, who hails from the village of New Tripoli in Pennsylvania, caught the ball and almost immediately put it into his pocket.

“My biggest fear was that I would drop it,” he said later. “I’m not a souvenir chaser. But there were about 100 people behind me who would have gone for it.”

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