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 gone to the Masters twice, and then have made two other trips to Augusta National on business trips. I thought one year I was actually going to play the course. Oh well . . . If you have never been, you cannot imagine how beautiful it is.
There can be no single stupider thing than adults spending hundreds of dollars to put a small ball in a hole. As long as one child doesn’t have enough food, God must put golfers in a special kind of hell.
Are you against all sports, or just golf?
I am jealous.
Pray for America
TV does not do justice to the beauty of the course, its undulations, both in fairways and greens, or the condition of the course. On TV, for example, the 6th green appears to have some mild undulations. Actually, I think they buried an adult elephant on the right side of the green.
During my walks, I could not find ONE weed anywhere, including the spectator walkways. The price of food and drink is dirt cheap: a buck for a soft drink, $2.50 for a ham-and-cheese sandwich. It was an amazing experience.
That’s one of the reasons why it is called a “Gentleman’s Game.” Etiquette is a large part of the sport.
DNFTT :-)
Oh my...
That's certainly not the stupidest thing ever posted to FR, but it's right up there.
Those who think they know what God is thinking and spew their wisdom accordingly, really have a special place in hell.
We live on a golf course and occasionally have spectators walking the course during a tournament.
The difference between golf fans/spectators, and other sports fans (i.e. football, hockey, baseball)...the golf fans are sober. They’re walking the course instead of sitting in a stadium consuming copius amounts of alcohol and acting like “jerks.”
My son used to go to his college football games but told me he quit attending. He’d take his girlfriend with him and he said the behavior at the games was so bad he didn’t want her in that atmosphere.
Sobriety makes for a more polite group of onlookers.
Clearly, you don't play with the same crowd i golf with! LMAO! They are certainly polite when others are around, but DAMN! Who knew tackling was commonplace in golf?
Then there must also be places for restaurant diners, computer owners...
Get my drift?
Everyone's entitled to their opinion, no matter how idiotic it is.
Thanks for sharing-—I always set aside the time to watch as much of the Masters as I can. To be there in person? Sublime.
I suggest you disconnect your computer service, and give the money to the poor.
I will be out on the course, in the beauty of nature that God made, thanking Him for people like you.
Have a nice day!
I had considered that, I just thought it was an ornery poster.
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