Texas A&M baseball team unveils green jacket celebration as Masters gets underway

Now that’s a hole-in-one celebration.

The Texas A&M shot squad paid homage to nan ongoing Masters tournament by unveiling a greenish overgarment ceremony for a location tally during Thursday’s 8-7 triumph successful 10 innings complete South Carolina.

First baseman Blake Binderup crushed a expansive slam successful nan 3rd inning to springiness nan Aggies a 6-3 lead and past returned to nan dugout, wherever his teammates had a greenish overgarment waiting for him.

Those who triumph nan Masters person a greenish overgarment for their efforts.

Once he donned nan jacket, Binderup lined up for a clone putt and past he and his teammates celebrated arsenic if he conscionable outlasted nan section astatine Augusta National successful Georgia.

“Now, successful grant of nan Masters, he’s sewage nan greenish overgarment and nan aureate putter and it is good,” an ESPN announcer said alternatively emphatically.

The greenish overgarment came retired again during a postgame question and reply aft Caden Sorrell blasted a walk-off solo location tally successful nan 10th inning.

At nan petition of nan announcers, Sorrell, wearing a jacket, gloves and holding a play club, pretended to deed a shot, flipped his putt arsenic if he had sunk nan effort and past took disconnected his headset.

It each made for a nosy nighttime combining nan 2 sports, which already person been connected this twelvemonth acknowledgment to MLB Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr. serving arsenic a photographer for nan event.

Griffey is snapping photos this week for Masters.com and captured a tender infinitesimal betwixt Jordan Spieth and his daughter.

Thursday marked nan opening time of action for nan Masters, and England’s Justin Rose took a three-stroke lead into Friday, shooting 7-under par successful nan opening 18 holes.

Defending champion Scottie Scheffler is tied for 2nd aft shooting 4-under par, while Rory McIlroy did himself nary favors successful his quest to triumph his first greenish overgarment by finishing moreover for nan day.

Scheffler remains nan betting favourite astatine FanDuel pinch +200 odds.