AUGUSTA, Ga. – When Derek Ernst departed Augusta National Golf Club, turning right onto Washington Road from Magnolia Lane that Friday afternoon in 2014, he figured he’d be back.
He was right, though Ernst’s Masters return has come a dozen years later – and not in the way he’d ever envisioned.
Ernst, who last played a PGA Tour event two years ago and is now the assistant men’s golf coach at the University of Tennessee, will caddie for Vols sophomore Jackson Herrington as the reigning U.S. Amateur runner-up makes his major debut…