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Originally Posted by Malice's Attorney
For those of you who've been lucky enough to go to the Masters, I'd like your advice on travel and getting the most out of our 1 lottery ticket day.
We only won tickets for the Monday practice round day.
We're staying at an awesome airbnb that's only a 5 minute walk from the course, staying Sunday/Monday night, so no real need for a rental car while we're in town (can uber if need be).
So the options are fly into Atlanta or savannah and drive in, or pay extra to fly into Augusta, thoughts? I figure foregoing the rental car cost would balance out the extra flight cost of getting to Augusta. Thoughts if you've done the trip? Flying out of PDX if that changes anything.
For the day of, a lot of people recommend buying a collapsible chair when you get there and just plop it down, but I don't know that there will be enough on course action on Monday to make that worth it or not. What should our game plan be? I'm assuming Monday will be a lot of range/short game work and less course work, but I'm not sure.
Any advice appreciated!
Very nice. I did the Monday practice round in '07 and it was one of my favorite trips, ever. From what I can recall flying into Augusta was cost prohibitive by quite a bit, so we just flew into Atlanta and rented a car (part of that is it's so cheap to get to Atlanta). I preferred that anyway since I just like having a car around, just in case.
The plop-down vs. follow can be a heated debate; for golf tournaments generally I like to split the middle and follow a group or two in the morning and plop down in the afternoon. At Augusta we followed Tiger for a while, then the Spanish contingent (the Mechanic was a blast to watch), then hung out at 16 and 15 for most of the afternoon (16 is fun for the skipping across the pond).
Mileage varies on this one, but I had a blast at Tbonz Steakhouse, which is kind of the 19th hole for non-players associated with the tournament, e.g., caddies, media, celebs. It was packed, even on the Sunday night we went. Great atmosphere. More sperry topsiders in one place than you'll see in your lifetime.
Aside: I'm out at Riverside at the end of this month, so we should tee it up.