Speaking of speaking of Augusta...

Apr 10, 2019, 9:50 AM

The egg salad sammiches are the best egg salad I have ever eaten...and I make a pretty mean egg salad myself. One might say they are eggsellent. The pimento cheese is fantastic, but now that there seems to be a cottage industry of craft pimento cheeses, I can't say it's the best, but certainly one of the top choices. The peach ice cream sandwiches are worth taking a human life for. Those and the caramel peanut clusters are dessert perfection. And everything you hear about the pricing is spot on...dirt cheap concessions and a system for getting you in and out with your food that every other venue could take a lesson from.

On the other hand, the golf shop was a complete madhouse. It truly reminded me of being at one of those sales at Filene's Basement where people were assaulting each other to get their hands on merchandise that you used to hear about. Joonyer bought a sack full of swag and I tagged along with him, but I could not justify in my mind the need for $150 polo shirts.

The course is absolutely gorgeous, and after a couple of days of hard rains even the mud there is spectacularly unique. The best part of the day was posting up in the stands by #16 and watching the pros skip balls across the water to the green. I could have watched that all day, and most of the players were very gracious and interacted with the crowd like nowhere else on the course.

I would highly suggest that if you haven't created an account and put your name in the lottery for tickets yet that you do so, because it's one of the greatest sports bucket list items on the planet even if you really don't care about golf. Reading about it or seeing it on TV doesn't do it justice at all.

And the super deluxe Master's bonus of the day was going down a block from the course to Hooter's and meeting the legendary John Daly, getting an autographed pin flag and a picture with him.

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a couple miles out from the property towards Martinez that almost always has a proliferation of ANGC/Masters stuff, sometimes even has its own section when stock is high. Evidently the locals donate their Masters garb to this one in bulk, probably lots of the tourney workers that get freebies every year, along with the old widows cleaning out their dearly departed's closets.

I don't frequent Goodwill stores on the norm, but I HAVE to stop in there whenever I pass through Augusta just to check it out. Over the years I have gotten basically new $100 Bobby Jones polos, $200 Peter Millar pullovers, and many other jackets and rainjackets with the little yellow USA logo for $6, $8, whatever the Goodwill price is. I don't mind giving out my little secret because last time I was in there, there had to be over 100 Masters-related items to pick from, every size and color. And seems half my closet is Masters garb, whatever isn't Clemson. I got way too much.

Speaking of speaking of Augusta...

Practice days are definitely the most fun there.

Up through the 90’s practices were no big whoop

my buddy finally got Masters Tourney tickets 3-4 years go

tuesdays are Crasss favorite day to be on property***

Crass will be at La Heritage next week...goot times***

I’ll be there in Thursday

shur***

12th tee at 12?***

Mine was always Friday though the practice rounds were

AWESOME

number and register the shirts and hats?***

One other thing I noticed about hats & shirts yesterday...

I’m thinking a no re-entry policy

I haven't looked, but it sure seems like there would be a

Imma be honest here, I can get you 50 Master's polo shirts

there's a Goodwill store

Any Green Sport Coats?

Sorry for the delay......this is one of the main culprits

set it up like an amusement park

Gonna miss it this year due to scheduling fark up

where's the pig?***

They get their pimento cheese from Wife Saver.***

Until 2013 they did.

Re: Until 2013 they did.

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