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With no mobile phones allowed, fans queue for two hours to capture their own unusual piece of Masters history

The first thing you see when you make it through the gates at Augusta National is the grass, which, for the first time in your life, really is greener on the other side. Then it's the rainbow of azaleas and above them the trees, dogwoods, magnolias and firethorns, snaking down around the driveway.

It will be around about now, as you are making your way along towards the course, that you will begin to notice all the people cutting back against the flow of the crowd. Soon enough, you will be wondering exactly where everyone is going. And then the answer will bang you in the shin.