By Rick Dorsey Chronicle Staff Sunday at Augusta National and Joe Durant is finally inside. He walks these forbidden fairways in peaceful anonymity, accompanied only by his caddie, his shadow and the occasional groundskeeper this sun-drenched Sunday. As Durant holes out on 9, a row of staggered mowers marches down the fairway behind him. It's Sunday at Augusta. There are green ropes but no galleries.
Television stands, but no tripods.
Bleachers, with reflections of sunlight bouncing from the brass, but no buzz to soak in. The course, the one all golfers envision themselves playing, is not yet tainted by a week's worth of footprints. And here's Durant, who at one time quit golf to sell insurance, alone and in awe. Rick Dorsey is a sports columnist for The Augusta Chronicle . It's Sunday at Augusta.