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This year's Masters may help disprove a bizarre conspiracy theory about the tournament and its flowers

This year's Masters is going to be decidedly less colorful than what we are used to and it will be the strongest evidence yet disproving what may be the strangest myth in golf.

Jordan Spieth at the Masters

According to John Strege of Golf Digest, the azaleas at Augusta National have already started to bloom thanks to an unusually warm spring.

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Boyette spoke with a local horticulturalist in 2012, who pointed out several big holes in the theory, not the least of which are that ice has a habit of melting when it is warm and that the golf course is really big and has a lot of azalea plants.

Still, sometimes people need to actually see evidence to the contrary. They might get it this year.

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