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Australian amateur Harrison Crowe and his team relived that horrific moment in second round of the Masters when a tree fell, making audience run for their lives. While Crowe was playing nearby 16th hole with fellow countryman Min Woo Lee, the towering Georgia pine hit 17th tee box and sent him two more rungs to Augusta National on Friday. Crowe’s parents, Tony and Shaunaugh, were among audience who fled in middle of dramatic scenes as lightning raged and play stopped. “They were on the other side, so he was lucky,” Crowe told AAP. We heard. We watched it all. It just started crackling and then it went down. The gruesome incident shook Shaunaugh Crowe. “My heart was in my throat,” he told AAP. “You heard that strong crunch first. I looked and I saw this big tree fell, then you see it fell into another tree, then another tree, and my first comment was ‘F**k’. “Because people sitting there and I didn’t know where the others were – Tony and the kids 10 meters from where it happened. Everyone is screaming just because it was like ‘This didn’t happen’. Everything stopped.” Crowe’s coach and assistant, John Serhan, said it was a miracle no one . Tony was 20 meters away from him. I ed myself. You could feel it below. This little tornado exploded. It didn’t take long, but he caught those trees,” he said. “You could see they were starting to shake. They were lucky that no one . Very, very lucky.” Crowe’s father said he watched the tree fall in “slow motion”. “The worst part about it was that all the security guards told me you had to get off the course as more trees were going to fall,” he said. Serhan’s son, Joseph, said the eerie ordeal began as Crowe’s group approached pitch 16. “Such a big wind of sand and dirt in our faces,” he said. “Here we go,” we thought. As soon as we stepped out into the clearing, it started blowing harder and we could literally hear this crack. “We all put our hands on our heads and heard a group of people screaming. There about 50 people sitting and people were literally falling in their chairs where they sitting. “People were falling from their chairs on the floor and crawling to escape. From where we are, we thought they would definitely be hit. You had zero chance. “There was a lady who was completely frozen. The trees fell perfectly between it—about a meter on either side.” Crowe’s mother commended Masters officials for their quick response. “You just saw green coats. Everyone showed up in two seconds,” he said. “Then the security guard called out and said ‘nobody got hurt’ because we thought someone had just been killed there just to see this. “No kidding, I looked at Harrison and he was standing on the court and he put his hand over his mouth as if to say ‘Oh no. I had to get up and ask Harrison if he was okay. I finally got my inhaler because seriously, I just couldn’t handle it.
