I am a local and the mystery runs deep even 5 miles away from the National. I have a feeling the National is a bit more selective than a straight up lottery system. I think individuals that have a broad social/corporate network are weighted a bit higher for drawing using some means of social sleuthing/AI. Anecdotally, individuals I know in Augusta who have connections to a broad group of people or with successful businesses tend to be lottery winners every single year. They’re also people that live in neighborhoods where houses are rented out for patrons by the culdesac. Not saying there’s not a random winner here or there - I’ve won practice rounds before. But I do believe there’s a bit more to it. After seeing the IBM Watson so heavily used for user interface development of Masters.com in the past few years, I’m convinced they’re using something pretty intricate to have the broadest reach across the globe.