Posted on 05/01/2009 5:39:20 AM PDT by econjack
I was lucky enough to have a friend who got tickets to the Masters golf tournament this year. I walked the course on Thursday and Friday and was able to see all of the players who qualified before the final cut. The golf was great, but that's not what stuck with me. It was the people in the gallery who amazed me.
This was my first visit to the Masters and my friend and I arrived carrying two folding chairs around 8:30AM each day. We walked over to the 18th hole, placed the chairs with a great vantage point and walked away. For the next seven hours we walked the course and watched some of the greatest players in the world make the game look easy.
Seven hours later, we walked to the 18th green, found our chairs exactly where we left them, but also found two people sitting in them. My friend walked over to them and said: "Gentlemen, we'd like to reclaim our chairs." One of the men turned to us and replied: "Thanks for letting us use them." at which point they got up and surrendered our chairs back to us.
My friend and I had been doing the same thing at various holes on the course all day, as had thousands of other spectators. Perhaps people who play golf are "different", but it was a joy to see this behavior compared to what I experience at other professional sports and their fans.
If you ever get the chance to attend the Masters, don't even think twice...do it. It helps restore your faith in Man.
I’ve been a follower of golf, although I have never been very good at the game, ever since I started caddying at a southern private country club, back in 46. (You know, Ben Hogan,Sam Snead, Bobby Jones, etc.).
The fellowship, the fresh air, and the excercise make it all worthwhile, and, plus the bonus seeing reports of the courtesy of the players and the fans.
As to a special place God has provided for for golfers, most of the golfers I have known have been most generous to the needy and poor.
As I see it, God never prepared hell for people, but it was prepared for Satan and his angels. (Matthew 25:41).
Actually it is for the: “....the fearful, the unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and the whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake of fire which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.” (Revelation 21:8).
Don’t worry - more recent reports have not indicated any direct transmission from pigs.
Is that you Michelle?
I think her issue is she doesn’t like small balls. Big balls, e.g., basketballs, are okay.
Or perhaps balls of any sort...
I play once a year...it’s a charity event where all the proceeds go to Our Daily Bread, a soup kitchen in Baltimore. Our Daily Bread averages 700 meals daily to the less fortunate.
Am I good or evil? Hope that makes me good. I need help for the other 364 days of drinking and gambling. LOL.
My guess is Hospice Nurse is a troll.
How about spending tens of billions....twice...saving a car company that goes bankrupt two weeks later? Is that more, or less "stupider" than golf?
God puts people like you in the world to test the faith of the rest of us.
That too...
Thanks for the help in my continuing education paper, “Does Caring Interfere with Fun?”
Judging by your first post on this thread, you have a way to go before you figure it out.
I have found that challenging someone about their vices promotes anger.
Huh, who'd a thought that...
I’ve had the pleasure of attending the Masters several times. I spent most of my time around the 13th and 16th greens. It’s a truly beautiful place.
The decorum of the Masters attendees certainly is very much due to the fact that golf is a gentleman’s game, but it’s also due to the southern setting. If one looked hard enough, I’m sure one could find some New Yorkers misbehaving. It’s just that at Augusta, they’re way outnumbered.
George Carlin? Is that you? I thought you were dead.
I have found that ignorant jerks like you rightfully get their asses beat a lot, sometimes to the point of needing a hospice nurse.
LMAO, golf as a vice.
You originally said that golf was “stupid.” I just pointed out that my son is playing on a golf team, which is a disciplined sport. I didn't see anything “Stupid” about him putting his time and energy into something constructive, and not getting into trouble like a lot of 13-year-olds could be doing.
My husband actually makes a living teaching golf. Therefore, it wouldn't really be considered a vice.
I don't understand why you chose to attack a sport that so many love to participate in. If you call that a challenge, that's just kind of weird.
Wow, you were 'caring'. That has to mean you aren't an a$$hole for the comment, just a lib. You definitely need continuing ed, what you've had up till now 'ain't gittin it done'.
In 1937, Roberts decided members should wear green jackets during Masters week so patrons could easily identify them if they had any questions. Beginning in 1949, the Masters champion, too, received a green jacket. Each member gets one jacket, for which he is billed a small fee. Members are not allowed to take the jacket from the grounds. A Masters winner is an honorary member and may take the coat off the premises the year he is champion. When a member arrives at the club, he finds the jacket hanging in his closet. If it begins to get threadbare or if a button comes loose, a sharp-eyed employee spots the defect and has it fixed.
"Despite the secrecy surrounding the club, there are no mysterious rituals shared by the members," says one insider. "Instead of a secret handshake you're more likely to get a slap on the back."
Augusta National is more about power than it is about money. It is not what you can afford but who you know, and how you act. The initiation fee is in the "low five figures," according to one source, and a member adds, "You could afford it," knowing full well he was speaking to someone making a journalist's salary. The annual dues, two insiders say, amount to "a few thousand dollars," and it costs about $100 a night to stay in one of the 105 beds that are on site.
It is an anti-American, anti-Christian club for jerks that put play before people. If you would like to feed a family for a YEAR for less than a green's fee, you can go here https://secure2.convio.net/ftc/site/Donation?ACTION=SHOW_DONATION_OPTIONS&CAMPAIGN_ID=287844&s_src=MSUSButton_20090505&JServSessionIdr010=ye9gh7ts64.app20a
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