Texas A&M’s Sam Bennett Was the Talk of the Masters

Sam Bennett’s emotions finally got the best of him in the fading light of a spectacularly beautiful Sunday afternoon at the Masters. The kid from Madisonville, a fifth-year senior at Texas A&M, had held it together for four days, but as the ovations grew louder and louder as he neared the end of his final round of play, the magnitude of his accomplishment appeared to dawn on him.There were no tears until the very end. Only when he walked from Augusta National’s eighteenth hole—sacred ground for golfers—for the final time, when he saw his mom and brother waiting for him, when memories of hours spent on courses with his late father came flooding back, was he unable to hold back. “From growing up as a…

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