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I’ve never been and I’m totally desperate to go. >:-(
Don’t be a wannabe, if you love golf, GO! It’s my greatest golf experience to date, far and away topping a hole in one.
Got there on a Tuesday morning, two years ago, no ticket, only hope eternal. Took about an hour to feel things out and got hooked up for a hundred bucks. Cheaper tickets may have been had, but I’d already wasted valuable time. It’s well worth $100 to leasurely walk the pristine course while munching $1 BBQ sandwiches w/slaw and a lemonade.
I don’t have alot of time, so here the a tidbit. After the players take two or three shots from the teebox on par three 15th, the crowd goes wild yelling, SKIP! SKIP! SKIP!, then the player may or may not skip a ball across the pond onto the green. It’s about a 65/35 or so make/miss proposition, no gimmie by any means. There’s ooo’s and aah’s, laughter, unbridled cheering, a good time for all, including the players. Only a few declined the challenge. Vijay was the closest to the hole I saw, while Fred Funk was a HOOT! After that party, the players walk to the green, mull around it for a minute or so, then drop a few balls in different greenside locations, chipping, pitching, flipping and flopping.
Also, TV golf is like watching compared to the real thing. These guys hit the ball PURE! Nice, easy, fluid swings launch the ball like a rocket that dissappears into the distance.
To show you what a golf wannabe, geek, spaz I am. Luke Mac and Jeff O. with playing/practicing together. Ogi dropped his lemonade cup into a waste can(new shiny 30 or so gallon gargabe cans with tan liners) and I shortly thereafter retrieved it. I thought how cool it would be to get a bit of his DNA infused into my hack self. I carried it around for a bit, then threw it in another can. It felt tre weird after a bit. Less I digress.
I stayed about 45 mintes out of Augusta and rooms were cheap. For parking, drive past the main gate a bit and park in somebodies yard for $5. About a block from the main entrance you can pay the parking lot security $20 and park in the commercial bussinesses “NO PARKING” zones. Don’t approach people inside the main entrance, in the common area, just before the turnstyles, you will get nicked as a scalper. The souvenir shop it bit expensive, go ahead and get something nice, you will never regret it. Get a flag, there cool. I had mine framed, as it should be.
I should have editted my post. Ay?
I have been to the Masters over a dozen times, staring in the mid 80s. I live in Columbia SC and fortunately the course is located on the eastern edge of Ga. Only about 75 miles away. It is an amazing epxerience to see this course and walk down into Amen Corner. The course is actually situated on a failry steep hillside, with the 18th green and the Clubhouse at the top. Getting in for Practice Rounds has become a real challenge ove the years. When I first attended you just stood in line and paid $15 at a booth. Then I had to start buying tickets from people with spares. I never paid a scalper, but I saw many people who did. I never more than $50. Now you have to either buy from scalpers or wait until someone comes out of the gates in the late morning. I have never paid more than $50 and I have gotten free tickets a couple of times. I attended the Tournamnet Rounds only once. Be polite and patient.
Good Luck! Being able to attend this event with friends and family has been a terrific experience.