Courtesy Summerhays family
I got the biggest check of my career and got into the Masters. Even though it wasn’t a win, it was a win.
KAYSVILLE — Lest anyone think that the magnitude of going to the Masters might be lost on Daniel Summerhays, consider this: not only can he hum the tune to the Masters theme song, he knows all the words.
For proof, he pulls out a cassette tape — remember them? — and pops it into a player. Sure enough, there are the familiar tranquil chords the world hears just before CBS's Jim Nantz says, “Hello friends, welcome to Augusta National and the Masters,” followed by something you don’t hear on television:
Oh, Augusta
Your dogwoods and pines
They play on my mind like a song
Oh, Augusta
It’s you that I love
It’s you that I miss when I’m gone
Summerhays sings the words right along with the music.