Masters tree falls from crushed chairs with customers hit in the back by pine cones in scary moment

Masters patrons were lucky to escape when storms hit Augusta National, halting play and downing three trees. Towering pines crashed to the ground near the 17th tee, crushing empty spectator chairs, as fans raced to escape.

“It felt like a blown grandstand, super strong,” said Sergio Garcia, who was on the green at the nearby 15th.

“Two trees fell from the roads and took another on the way down.

"People scattered around them but there was a woman the trees fell around her and somehow she was not hurt. Thank God."

Customers in the area quickly moved away.

Eyewitness Deshey Thomas, of North Carolina, said it was amazing no one was hurt.

"Pine cones were hitting us in the back, we turned around and looked up and heard a huge crunch and the tree practically crushed ten chairs that were sitting there," Thomas said.

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"Fortunately, we got everyone out of there. We were blessed."