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One solution: green jacket for Martha

By Gene Wojciechowski
ESPN The Magazine

Wednesday, April 9, 2003

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- You could cut the tension with a fairway mower. There was Hootie Johnson -- The Chairman, as he is referred to here by the members at Augusta National -- sitting at room's front, his signature green jacket worn just so. There was a certain polite Southern defiance to his manner, the almost-perceptible feeling that at any moment he could leap from the dais and deliver a forearm shiver, just like he did decades ago as a fullback at South Carolina, to whoever offended him. Then ...

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