Article: THE MASTERS; Johnson in lead after first round.(Sports)

Byline: George Kimball

AUGUSTA, Ga. - Memo to Martha: Cancel that contract on Hootie.

"If I drop dead right now, our position will not change on this issue," the embattled Augusta National Golf Club chairman vowed yesterday. "It's not my issue alone. I promise you what I'm saying: If I drop dead this second, our position will not change."

You'd have to say that the Hootster recaptured the momentum yesterday morning. The chairman's annual State-of-the-Masters address, normally a sparsely attended exercise in Wednesday morning tedium, played to a standing room only crowd, with late-arriving reporters turned away at the door because seemingly half ...

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