Roaming gnome is a master of disguise at Augusta National

AUGUSTA, Ga. - The players aren’t the only ones competing at Augusta National Golf Club.

Patrons are, too.

But their coveted prize isn’t a green jacket.

It’s a gnome.

The famed golf venue comes out with different garden gnome each year to be sold during Masters week.

They get snapped up at the patron shop so quickly, they’re hard to get.

But Kenneth Locke replicates the look of the garden gnome with his own clothing.

So even if you can’t find one of the figures at the patron shop, you may bump into him.

“My wife was a really big part of it,” he said. “She found all the clothes. I was just the body. So it worked out good. She found the cardigan, found the pants online, got the hat from oh, an antique store, yeah – put it all together. Came up here Saturday for the women’s. Everybody loved it. So I’m just having a good time -- I’m just rolling with it.”

The gnomes are so rare that Locke doesn’t have one.

But he should, because he lives just a stone’s throw from the course – on Azalea Drive.

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