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Inside the last-minute dash to get this Masters competitor's driver… from a museum

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Brandon Holtz needed to get his old driver back at the Masters.

Brandon Holtz needed to get his driver back ... from the USGA Museum. Simon Bruty/Augusta National/Getty Images Usually, when a player at a PGA Tour event, let alone a major, needs a golf club, there’s a plethora of equipment trucks from every OEM to build them one.

But on Tuesday afternoon at the Masters , U. S. Mid-Amateur champion Brandon Holtz needed one specific driver that no Tour Truck could build him.

It was already built. In fact, it was a driver Holtz knew quite well; he wouldn’t need much time to get familiar with it. He used it just seven months ago at the Mid-Am at Troon Country Club in Scottsdale, Arizona.

The issue was that Holtz had last used that driver seven months ago. At the Mid-Am. At Troon Country Club.

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