"Hooks and ladders: A Massachusetts firefighter will tee it up at the Masters"

While we've been salivating at the potential for this year's Masters to give us a match up for the ages, of all ages, there is another fantastic story out there: U.S. Mid-Amateur Champion Matt Parziale.

Alan Shipnuck gives the Brockton, Mass. firefighter's story the deep dive treatment for Golf.com and it's a 

A half-dozen guys started talking at the same time, all in accents thicker than chowdah. They asked after Parziale's old man, Vic, who served 33 years in the same precinct before retiring last autumn as a captain. Inevitably, talk turned to Parziale's upcoming tournament schedule.

"I'm gonna try to get down there to watch," one guy said, "but I'm looking for a green blazer to wear so I can fit in." The room exploded in laughter.

Somewhere Bobby Jones must be smiling about the culture clash of a horde of Beantown back-drafters tromping along his gilded fairways. But it was Jones's abiding love for amateur golf that created a spot in the Masters for a guy like Parziale and his cinematic journey to Augusta.