I'm lucky to have some really great friends.
One of them is Stan, who refuses to tell me what he shoots on the golf course and I think it might be in the 70's, who had some extra Masters practice round golf passes that he wasn't going to be able to use. So he called me up to see if I might like to have them. YES!, I shouted into the phone and I think Stan's hearing might have finally returned this week, but I was very excited.
Even if you don't like golf, and I actually do-but am a terrible player, the Augusta National Golf Club course is beautiful. For golfers it is holy ground. The grass is perfect, the trees are perfect, it is in a word, perfect.
On practice days, the days before the tournament, you can bring in cameras and ask for autographs. So I brought my cameras but was only allowed to bring in one, the other, Augusta said, was too big. I was sad, but happy to have at least one allowed in and me and my husband Dale headed out to the course.
Here are some pictures of the course, including Australian golfer John Senden putting, former Master's champions, Bernhard Langer and Ben Crenshaw, who was laughing about the pencils having erasers. Lunch is very inexpensive at Augusta and everything has the Masters's logo on it. The last photo is of 18 year-old Byeong-Hun An of Korea signing autographs. He is a high school senior. This is his first Masters's appearance and he is the youngest winner of the U.S. Amateur championship, beating out Clemson's Ben Martin--who is also at this year's Masters. Hope you enjoy.
