
By Steve Keating AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) - Jim Herman is living the American dream and on Monday the journeyman still was not quite sure if he had woken up after securing a last-minute Masters invite with his first PGA Tour victory. A visit to Augusta National for the year's first major is a trip to a golfing dreamland for fans and players alike and one Herman, ranked 191st in the world, was not anticipating when he arrived at the Houston Open for his 106th PGA Tour start. "You want to dream, you want to believe that you're going to make it (to a Masters)," a smiling but clearly fatigued Herman told a pre-Masters news conference a day after his Houston Open triumph.
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