Seven years ago, Matt Parziale experienced a week unlike any other. Competing in his first ever Masters Tournament, Parziale played a practice round with Tiger Woods and Fred Couples. He then teed it up in the Par 3 Contest alongside Patrick Reed, who would go on to win the Masters just 4 days later. The nine-time Mass Golf Player of the Year received the invitation by way of his victory at the 2017 U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship. 📸: Garren Poirier (fb)

📗 The Greatest Recovery: In Volume III of The Massachusetts Golfer, Steve Derderian tells the inspiring story of Ernie Chaplin, who's backyard golf set-up, captured on film by Daniel Duarte, provided sanctuary throughout multiple battles with cancer. "He trusted that his focus on the love of his family, combined with his burning desire to play golf again, would bring him back. 'The fact I could get a club in my hands, that was everything,' Chaplin says. 'Golf was absolutely my driver and something that kept calling me.'" Read the full article in Volume III, hitting mailboxes very, very soon. (fb)