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MAKING THE MOST OF MASTERS WEEK, cont’d<br />
The grandstand to the right of 5 green<br />
delivers<br />
and is the perfect spot for<br />
watching players hit their approach<br />
shots, pitch shots, bunker shots, and roll<br />
the flat stack. Five green is a great place<br />
to take it all in.<br />
The fairly new tee box on 7 is an<br />
absolutely awesome place to see your<br />
favorite player crack one down the<br />
middle. You can get almost as close as<br />
you can on 2 tee, as few people know<br />
it’s back there and it’s never crowded.<br />
My favorite place of all to<br />
My all-time place to take someone who<br />
wants to see their favorite players up<br />
close and personal has to be the 11th<br />
tee. It’s to the left of 10 green, down a<br />
short hill, never crowded, and there’s<br />
almost always a delay in the action,<br />
8-10 minutes or so; it’s the<br />
You’ll be<br />
so close to the players here you’ll feel<br />
like you’re in the same group with ‘em!<br />
Of course,<br />
if only for the sake of tradition. It’s<br />
always crowded as a WHO concert,<br />
but certainly worth the trip. I’ve got a<br />
little Amen Corner story for you I’d like<br />
to share, so remind me of that, should<br />
we get the chance to meet. The Indian<br />
burial ground stories are true.<br />
COMMUNITY<br />
at least for the WOW<br />
factor of it all, is #8. The snap of the<br />
swing, the crack of the ball, to watch it<br />
arc into the sky like a diver and bound<br />
down the fairway, ready to go for the<br />
green in two. And to know that you will<br />
never, ever, not in a million years, hit a<br />
golf shot even remotely close to what<br />
you just witnessed. It’s humbling, in an<br />
oddly gratifying way. Eight tee box is<br />
also the best place to say, “Hey, let’s<br />
meet up here!” in case you get lost or<br />
separated from your buddies or family,<br />
because it’s very open and everybody<br />
can see everybody. It’s also close to a<br />
concessions stand and bathroom.<br />
Speaking of the chance of a<br />
lifetime– which is what this is for<br />
you–if I were you, I wouldn’t leave<br />
the course until they kick you out,<br />
which will be around 8:00 P.M.<br />
even<br />
after all the players have left the course.<br />
I love Masters Week. More than my<br />
birthday, more than Christmas.<br />
Long and the short,<br />
Take<br />
these tidbits and make it your own, my<br />
friends. I would love to be a fly on the<br />
wall for your ride home, and I would love<br />
to hear your story of your experience at<br />
Augusta, should you be fortunate to get<br />
there. You can find me at trippster@<br />
comcast.net. Holler!<br />
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