WEBVTT - Advice for Spectating at the Masters 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.800 I miss a green for example, I'm already upset. When 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:04.920 I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset. 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:05.880 And when I find my. 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:08.920 Ball in a frid Egg, Friday Egg, the dreaded Frida Egg, 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:11.880 Frida Egg, Frida Egg Egg, Frida Egg, Bride Egg, Lie, 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:35.600 I'm about ready to run off of the hump. Hello 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:38.040 and welcome to the Friday Egg Podcast. My name is 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:41.599 Garrett Morrison, and today we have a special episode for 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:46.520 you all about Augusta National and the Masters, specifically about 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:51.040 the spectating experience at Augusta National. And I think that 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:54.760 we're going to revolve our discussion a little bit around 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:56.920 sort of the first time experience if you haven't been 0:00:56.960 --> 0:01:00.320 there before and you're going. This is a set of 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:04.840 recommendations and ideas for that. And to help me with this, 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:08.880 I have three guests today. This is an unusual format 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:11.760 for the Frida Egg podcast. So we have Andy Johnson, 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:15.800 the founder of the Frida Egg. We have Brendan Porath, 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:19.760 who is Andy Johnson's co host on the Shotgun Start 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:22.960 podcast and the most recent employee of the Frida Egg, 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:27.360 which we're very excited about. Title there's no title, Yeah, 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:29.880 so have we we haven't decided on a title at 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:30.520 all for Brendan. 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:32.559 Then huh, employee works. 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:37.039 I was thinking, like managing managing director emeritus. 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:38.399 I don't know anything you want. 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:41.640 To I'm managing editor, and Brendan's coming in here and 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:47.400 trying to claim managing director emeritus. Er all right? And 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:50.520 then finally we have Michael Wolfe with us. Michael Wolfe, 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:53.680 who may be better known as Bama Bearcat on Twitter, 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:59.080 is a golf history savant and in particular somebody who 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:01.800 knows a lot about the history of the Masters and 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:05.920 Augusta National. So very excited to have Michael Wolfe with 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:06.480 us today. 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:08.600 I was excited at too, until I just learned that 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:10.320 I'm the only person in this room right now. 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:11.440 Not like it's not getting. 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:14.960 Papers, this is already going off the rails. Well, we'll 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:17.000 we'll figure out the payment later. Maybe maybe there will 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:18.840 be some dinner tonight or something like that. 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:22.120 I mean, who knows, maybe you'll get payment for you know, 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:23.160 from something else. 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:27.440 Delicious Elijah Craig, Bob who knows you. 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.360 Already got a sip of that? That seems like enough 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:32.799 people would do that for the Well. 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:35.639 Thank you for working in the sponsor of the episode. Michael, 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:38.840 that's very professional of you. So our basic idea here 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:42.880 today is to go through some recommendations for the experience 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:47.240 at Augusta National, and those recommendations can be whatever you 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:50.000 guys want, essentially, and then at the end of the 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:54.160 podcast we'll talk about our favorite spots at Augusta. So 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:58.720 that's the basic idea. Why don't we start with Michael. Michael, 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:02.800 what is your number one recommendation for somebody who's going 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:05.400 to go be a spectator at Augusta National. 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:06.519 Sure? 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:09.640 So, the Masters, like they do with everything, They've got 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:12.880 a great website and if you click on Spectator Information, 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:15.440 it'll give you tips on how to get here and 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:17.720 how to park and everything. The first tip would be 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:20.240 to follow those directions. This is not a place where 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:22.080 you're going to outsmart them. They've been doing this for 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:26.600 a long time. Use the parking. It's free, it's well organized. 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:30.440 Just trust the process, don't try to get fancy and 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:32.440 work around it. So I would say the first thing 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:35.760 is parking. But then the most important part I would 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:38.720 say of that tip is you're gonna see big signs 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:40.080 when you get in the parking that say leave your 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:42.680 phone in the car, that's very unusual for most of 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.560 us these days, and it takes a little thinking if 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:48.120 you are with a group of people, and particularly if 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:51.160 you're not all arriving at the same time. So the 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:53.720 first thing, first and foremost, everybody needs to know what 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:56.960 each other's phone numbers are. We don't know everybody's phone 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:59.320 numbers anymore. But if you don't have your phone and 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:02.080 you've got a content tacked them down the line, and 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:03.800 you don't you don't have your contacts to look up. 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:05.280 So you gotta know what people's phone numbers are. 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:07.440 So write down whoever you're with, and you gotta get 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:08.640 a hold of what their phone numbers are. 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:10.040 And then. 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:14.120 Because their phone's out on the course to call, you're 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:15.840 gonna need and then you're gonna need a coordinator. So 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:18.360 you're gonna need to figure out whether it's somebody's cell 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:21.360 phone or somebody's answering machine, or somebody's friend who's at 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:24.240 home and not with everybody, somebody that everybody can call 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:26.400 from the course if there's a rain delay or whatever 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:29.080 that can tell you where everybody else is, or just 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:30.839 messages that everybody can access. 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:34.120 You're gonna you sound like you're making this out to 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:37.040 be you know, like a this sounds like a chore. 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:39.800 I I might, you know, I might turned out. 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.679 The master well and then the simplest then is also 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:45.479 a place to meet. So if everybody hasn't been before, 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:47.640 you may not know where to go to meet. 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:49.640 You've got to establish. Okay, if we get. 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:50.840 Lost, or if one person wants to go to the 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.040 merchandise tent, or if just two cars are arriving with 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:55.720 groups of people from different parts of the country at 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:59.440 different times, where are we gonna meet up? Figure that 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:01.640 out for It's important because you can't text each other 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:03.479 when you get there, so you gotta have a spot. 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:05.160 And it's going to be crowded, so you got to 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:07.760 be very specific in where to meet. You can't just 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:09.560 say let's meet on the twelfth hole. You got to 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:11.760 say we're gonna meet in front of the beer only 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:13.119 line in the concession stand. 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:14.520 But been there? 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:16.920 Here's the thing, what if you haven't been there? 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:18.880 So I'm gonna give you a couple of places right 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:20.120 now where everybody can meet. 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:24.280 And the other thing about it is, I can't stress 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:28.279 this enough. Everybody, Oh, let's meet up, Oh, let's meet up. 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:32.680 Oh in this this is the hardest part about going 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:35.320 to the Masters is meeting up with people, yes, and 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.880 different parties. This is this is you know, in somewhat 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:41.880 essential because people arrive at different times like you. 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:46.159 And and adding to the degree of difficulty, every single 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:51.400 person who comes to watch the Masters dresses alike. Everybody's 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:54.640 wearing the same khaki shorts or navy blue pants and 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:56.320 the same Great Bee dratty golf shirts. 0:05:56.360 --> 0:06:02.839 So, oh wow, I've tried to get especially a non 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:04.800 brand something. 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:07.600 And then, last but not least, if you're gonna meet 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:09.200 someplace and you're a green on a time, you gotta 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.440 be wearing a watch because if you're like me and 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:13.520 you just look at your phone for the time and 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:15.279 your phone is in your car, that ain't gonna help. 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:17.760 So everybody's got to have a watch, and everybody's got 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:19.839 to have a plan for where you're meeting and when, 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.120 and you got to be as specific as possible because 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:23.920 there's gonna be a thousand other people in that same 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:26.839 spot and they're all gonna be wearing khaki shorts in 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:27.680 a white cul shirt. 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:29.680 And you got to be cushion. You got to have 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:31.760 cushion on the time. So if they say ten thirty. 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:34.280 You gotta nobody, you know, you wait till ten forty 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:37.240 and you know, be specific, pick out a few landmarks. 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:38.160 It is. 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:40.560 It's very hard plant it all in advance, you know, 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:42.680 and have those numbers because there are phones on the course. 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:45.919 This is like a set of skills that people don't 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:49.039 have anymore, and so that that's it's It's really funny 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:51.240 how when you go there, it's almost like an elementary 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:52.520 school field trip. 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:55.360 I'll tell you what, though, it is liberating. 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.360 I was I was riding the media that we we 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:01.279 get like a shuttle from the the press center. It's 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:03.919 the press shuttle, I guess, the press center to the 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:06.720 to the course. It's it's a ways away, you know, 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:08.440 it's at the end of the range, so you know, 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:10.800 and I'm sitting on the back of this cart and 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:15.080 some nice lady that was that was uh she she 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:17.640 we stopped to drop somebody at the range and she's like, god, 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:20.160 he look so relaxed, and I go, you know, I'm 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:23.080 not walking around with a bundle of anxiety in my pocket. 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:26.960 You know, this is this is delightful. I knew at 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:29.680 that point when I left, It's like I'm just out 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:32.160 here you know, and I think that's one of the 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:34.840 great things. But I don't have a watch. I didn't 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:37.160 bring one. I have one, but I didn't bring one 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:40.080 because I'm an idiot. But that also has allowed me 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:43.000 a little bit more freedom. But you know, the uh, 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:45.640 this is this is a it's a great you know, 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:48.520 everybody hates it, but once you're out there, the way 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:52.240 you take in everything, it really adds to the experience. 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:56.160 Well, it makes you think how many other opportunities we 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:59.600 should take to separate ourselves from our phones, and it 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:02.840 makes you wish that there were more kind of required 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:04.200 moments to do that. 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:05.840 Yeah, absolutely, I would. 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:08.200 I think it heightens your senses overall. Right, you're not 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:10.800 looking at your phone, You're just not looking. You're not 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:13.320 scrolling your phone the whole time. It heightens your senses. 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:16.160 It heightens your awareness of the course of what's happening 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:18.800 in front of you, of the people you're with. I'd 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:23.200 add to Andy's segment sentiment about liberating because like there 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:24.080 are just meetups that. 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:26.680 Aren't going to happen. It's kind of great, right, you 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:28.080 know that there are. 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:31.680 People in town that theoretically you probably would have to 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:33.560 meet up with or might meet up with if you 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:35.960 had all of your phones out there, right, and it's 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:37.360 just like you go in there and it's like, well, 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:39.920 that's not going to happen. I know they're here, we 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:41.760 talked about it. It's just not going to happen. We 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:44.160 didn't set it up. And so it's liberating in that 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:47.480 way that it kind of shrinks the circle, if that's right, 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:50.480 you know, and maybe that's anti social in a way, 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:53.559 but it just sort of shrinks the sort of distraction 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:56.280 and it heightens your senses of everything else. 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.480 The one thing I will say though about that is like, 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:04.080 meet up don't happen, but then organically things do happen 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:06.360 because of the nature of the golf course. 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:11.280 It's it's it's an this huge property. Everybody's in awe. 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:16.400 Of this massive, seemingly massive property, but it's really small. 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:18.240 It's really packed together. 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:21.120 You wrote a great article about the art of the 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:24.080 Roars a few years ago, and what the art of 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:27.040 the roars is is that there are greens that are 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:27.760 super close. 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:30.280 They're all the greens are packed together. They're jammed together. 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:31.520 That's why it gets so loud. 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.920 And that's one of the great things about it is 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:38.880 that you might you have best intentions to meet people 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.840 and things fall through and you talk about it, and 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:45.160 there's a good likelihood that you run into that person 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:48.240 because it's just like kind of quaint and intimate in 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:48.640 a way. 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:51.760 Well, this helps me understand why the Big Tree is 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:52.960 so important. 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:54.560 Oh, the big trees. 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:57.719 Not everybody could get to the Big Tree, and the 0:09:57.760 --> 0:09:59.760 Big Tree is like the ultimate. 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:02.439 This is yeah, but. 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:05.480 It's it's the easy if if you it makes meeting 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:07.400 at the Big Tree super easy. 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:11.480 Michael, let's get to your your meeting spots. 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:16.440 Okay, so you want to Everything around the clubhouse is 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:18.640 kind of it's a madhouse. There's just a lot of 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:20.880 people coming and going. Obviously the first he's there, the 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:23.080 tenth tees there, that's where the players are coming out. 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:26.679 If you can avoid meeting at the clubhouse, try to 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:30.280 avoid it. If it's unavoidable to meet at the clubhouse, okay, 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:32.839 and you've never been there before, then then the spot 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:34.960 that you're gonna want to meet at, which is in 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:38.520 that area, is what everyone would refer to as the 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:42.360 big scoreboard. And the big scoreboard is to the right 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:44.640 of the first t Okay, so it's right when you 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:47.000 walk on the property and it's not the Big score 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:48.160 but that she's on the eighteenth green. 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:49.440 It's this is a scoreboard. 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:51.679 It's it's on the right hand side of the first 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:55.120 fairway and it's kind of close to the merchandise and 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:57.240 the food and everything, and there's kind of a picnic area. 0:10:57.320 --> 0:10:59.559 But but it's called the Big Scoreboard because it literally 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:02.200 has every score for every hole. 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:02.960 For every player. 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:05.840 So it's got the entire field on a scoreboard and 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.760 they record the scores like old fashioned, you know, box 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:11.680 by box for everyone that's in the field. And it's 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:15.000 far enough away from the crowds that if you have 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:16.760 to meet in that area, then that's the spot to 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:18.920 meet at. The other place that I like to meet 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:21.320 at that I think is good, I try I would 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:22.600 try to avoid twelve thirteen. 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:23.480 It's just too crowded. 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:26.520 But a nice tea box where you'll be able to 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:28.720 find your friends right away and see them and they'll 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:30.040 be able to see you because it's. 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:30.800 Just never that crowded. 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:34.560 Is there's a spot behind the fourth t where you 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:36.560 can meet friends, and that also has the advantage of 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:38.040 you can see a lot that's going on in that area. 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:39.319 So there's a spot. 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:41.160 It's kind of hard to get to, but it's up 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:42.480 on a hill and you'll be able to see your 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:43.679 friends and they'll be able to spot to you from 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:44.240 a while away. 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.960 And there's never anybody up there. So I would say big. 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:50.360 Scoreboard to the right of the first T if you're 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:51.720 on that side of the property. If you're on the 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:54.679 other side of the property. My personal favorite is right 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:55.480 behind the fourth T. 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:56.080 Gotcha. 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:56.800 Yeah. 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:58.880 One other one I do is seven. 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.720 Behind seven there's a great hill in a big lawn 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:07.280 and if you there's a scoreboard there that's big and 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:11.239 you could just stand like and lean against the scoreboard 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:13.920 if you want it, and it makes meeting really easy, 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:16.320 Like we're going to meet at the base of the 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:19.439 scoreboard behind seven green, and that's. 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.040 Like a center point of the course, like you could 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:23.600 literally go you go to you know, amen corner, quickly, 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:25.400 you go to sixteen, you can go to ten, eleven, 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.080 like you could just go a bunch of different directions 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:27.560 from seven. 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:29.000 I'd say that's a great spot. 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:31.920 And it's right next to two green, two right two green. 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:35.160 Seventeen green is nearby. Jeff Ogilvie refers to this as 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:38.040 the sweet spot of Augusta National, partly because of what 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:41.920 Brendan just said. You can get to other parts of 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:43.880 the property pretty quickly from there. 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:46.080 Yeah, you can get to Aim and Corner really quick. 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:49.280 Like you're basically right at eleven, you're right at ten green, 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:53.959 you're right at eighteen t it's a wonderful little spot. 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:58.920 You're close to fifteen. So yeah, that's another great meeting spot. 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:01.000 Anything sound logistics. 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:04.720 So last, but not least, the Masters is held every 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:07.200 year but one. It's always held the first week about April. 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:09.320 In this part of the country. The first week of April, 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:12.000 you're gonna get thunderstorms. It's pretty rare that you get 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:13.680 a whole Master's week where there isn't at least one 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:16.840 day where there's weather. The same thing with the no phones. 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:19.760 If there's weather, they make you leave the course. There's 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:22.720 nowhere to go on the property. For the spectators, there's 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.880 nowhere to shelter under. They physically make you empty out 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:28.200 when they blow the siren. Everybody's got to remember where 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.640 the car is, Okay, so you've got to remember how 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:32.280 to get back to where the car is parked, and 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:34.400 you got to have a plan of where you know 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:37.240 that we're all headed to which car, so that everybody 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:39.280 knows where the heck everybody is because it you know, 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:42.160 they blowing the horn. Thirty thousand people are all headed 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:44.280 in the same direction at the same time. So when 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:45.840 you get out of your car in the morning, make 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:48.280 a mental note of where you're parked. 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:52.280 All right, So why don't we go to Brendan and 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:55.040 get his main recommendation. 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:58.040 Okay, my top twenty items in the merged town you 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:01.560 have to buy are no? 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:01.640 No? 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:04.120 I mean, I understand the appeal of the merch ten 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:05.360 and I understand why people go. 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:07.720 I'd say, once you've done it, I might not. 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:10.240 It's a lot, it's a lot of time and a 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:14.360 lot of drama. I saw people yesterday, saw people yesterday 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:16.080 they let you we knew I the storms are coming 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:18.040 at noon, and they let I saw people run in 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:21.200 at eight spend probably a thousand dollars in merchandise and 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:23.280 run back out to their cars because you can go 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:25.560 in twice, right, every badge can be scanned twice and 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:27.840 drop that off and go back. And we had four 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:29.600 hours and they burned like an hour and a half 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:32.600 of that, you know, taking the merch out to their car. 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:35.080 It's just like, I don't know if that's always the 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:35.880 best time. 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:37.920 You know, best spent. 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.960 But I understand why people do it, given that it's 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:45.960 exclusive to the property. One recommendation I would have, and 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:48.800 maybe I'm being a negative Nancy or whatever the term 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:53.800 would be, is I wouldn't spend a preponderance of time 0:14:54.000 --> 0:15:00.600 in Amen Corner. I don't think it's a great viewing experience. 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:03.400 I understand you need to go see it if it's 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:06.080 your one visit, it's your first visit. Of course, I'm 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:09.800 not discouraged you you from going to see it. It's 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:12.080 far away. You can't see the ball. You can't see 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.640 the ball real well in twelve. Obviously, you can't see 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:17.240 much of thirteen. You don't get real close. I mean, 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:19.280 the closest you get is the corner right the elbow 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:20.600 up at the top of thirteen. 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:22.280 It's a good spot. 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:26.240 But as far as like going deep down into Amen Corner, 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:29.400 it's very crowded. It's a social scene. I think I 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:32.200 once wrote an article like the five senses at Amen Corner. Right, 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.680 it's like cigar smoke and sun dresses and all these 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:37.720 different like all your senses get you really get overwhelmed 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:41.760 with all the different Augusta National feels. I just don't 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:43.720 think you need to spend a lot of time down there. 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:47.040 It's not great for watching the golf in my opinion. 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:48.840 I know it's the most famous Part three in the 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:51.720 world and all that stuff. I just think it's far 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:52.920 away from watching the golf. 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:58.120 Yeah, every hole eleven you're distanced. You can't get close 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:01.840 to eleven, twelve you can be close to the tee, 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:04.640 but there's a lot of people there, and then thirteen 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:08.440 you're set back way far away. The only spot I'll 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:12.680 say is that, and it's usually not very crowded. Surprisingly, 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:15.280 I think people don't know you can go back there 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:17.800 because of how roped off you are through that section. 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:20.960 But if you cross fourteen and then go down into 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:23.680 the corner, you can get like right down on the 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:26.520 corner of the zaleas and you have this beautiful view 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:29.160 of the green. You're really close to the green there 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:32.080 and you get to see that topography going back, and 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:37.800 it's that's a great spot, But like Brendan said, it's 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:41.640 not the It's great to see, but it's not necessarily 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:43.120 where I would spend a ton of time. 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:46.720 So you wouldn't. You wouldn't post up at twelve, right, 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:48.960 But it sounds like there are maybe a couple of 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:53.360 good spots that are sort of on the perimeter of 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:57.240 Amen Corner. Right if you go to thirteen Green, there's 0:16:57.280 --> 0:16:59.400 sort of a route of escape to the rest of 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:02.520 the course. You're not like deep in there. But I 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:05.959 guess you would recommend at least going to see the holes, 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:09.920 just not necessarily planning to spend an entire afternoon there. 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:13.439 I would walk it, Yes, I would walk Amen Corner. 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:18.080 What I see sometimes it's happening quite often, is people 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:20.720 just posting up in this social scene, this party, this 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:23.639 sort of field party in the spot that you know 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:26.000 below the grand stands, because it is pretty open, it's 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:28.520 a bit of an expanse there where a lot of 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:31.760 people can congregate. It's not like there's not a huge 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:34.879 chair area like there might be on sixteen. 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