Azalea Adele Garcia came into the world at 1:54 a.m. on Wednesday — obviously named with a nod to the most famous flower at the Augusta National Golf Club, by her father and the most recent Masters champion, Sergio Garcia.

Garcia, who conducted a teleconfe rence with the media on Tuesday from an Austin, Texas, hospital, 90 minutes after his wife Angela went into labor, had to wait nearly 17 more hours before their daughter was born. Her first name may be especially fitting since Azalea is the name Augusta National gives to the par-5 13th hole, and Garcia’s par there in the final round last year after he hit into a hazard saved his round.

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