Golfers Golf and Travel - Masters Saturday Ep 29

A look at a great upcoming day of golf...and if Rory can hold on. ..also a look at the rules of the tickets from the Masters, Patron rules, cost of eating at the Masters, and what can get you kicked out...and the rules of the little chairs...

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Transcript

SPEAKER_09 0:01

Golfers, golf, and travel takes the air.

SPEAKER_06 0:18

Good morning. And welcome back to golfers golf and travel. It is Saturday at Augusta National. Moving day. And through two rounds, one name has risen above the rest. Rory McElroy. 12 under bar. But this is Augusta. The leads here are never quite what they seem. Because Augusta National doesn't give you a victory. It invites you to earn it. One decision at a time. And yet, there is something different in the way Rory is moving through this golf course. There's a calm, a rhythm, an ease that only comes when a player is no longer fighting the moment, but flowing with it. The patrons see it. They feel it. Not with noise, not with distraction, but with something far more powerful. Respect. They rise with him. They walk with him. They understand what may be unfolding. Behind him. Sam Burns, Patrick Reed, within reach, yes. But more importantly, within pressure. Because at Augusta, it's not about chasing the lead, it's about surviving the weight of it. Through two days, this course has revealed everything. Firm greens, narrow margins, and that ever-present truth, that one swing can change everything. A men corner has already spoken. And it will speak again. The eleventh, the twelfth, the thirteenth. They don't ask questions. They demand answers. And now the question becomes clear. Who will remain patient? And who will force the moment? Because here, patience wins. But beyond the ropes, there is another story unfolding. One that defines Augusta just as much as the competition itself. The patrons. They are not fans, they are part of the tradition. And here, tradition is protected. No cell phones, no noise, no distractions. Just the sound of the game. The wind through the pines, the ball finding the green. And in that silence, something rare happens. You don't just watch Augusta. You feel it. But with that privilege comes expectation. You run, you're gone, you shout, you're gone, you disrupt the moment. And you're simply no longer part of it. And yet, in the middle of all that discipline, there's something wonderfully simple. A sandwich for a dollar fifty. A drink for just a few dollars, a reminder. But not everything here has changed. And then perhaps the most remarkable tradition of all. The chairs placed carefully. Left behind. Trusted all day. And when the patrons return, they are still there. Untouched. Unmoved. Because of Augusta. Respect isn't asked for.

SPEAKER_05 4:44

And so as we arrive at moving day, with Rory McElroy leading with quiet authority, and the field waiting for its moment, we are reminded that at Augusta National, the game is not rushed.

SPEAKER_06 5:05

It is revealed. Stay with us. The story is just beginning.

SPEAKER_09 6:30

This is old Uncle Randy, and been watching the Masters this morning, and it has been one for the ages. If uh the young Jordan Speith could just find another couple inches closer to the hole, he'd be leading this tournament. And of course, Scotty Scheffler is making a making a comeback. And uh, you know, before long, if Rory um somehow, some way along the way to the golf course uh has a bad attitude or you know the hole doesn't get in the way of amazing shots once again, it could be a tournament. But right now, with Rory leading the way he is, it's going to be uh be it always turns out to be an interesting weekend. So but today, uh young James Algio, coming from Punkskatani Phil's uh hometown of uh Reading, Pennsylvania. Isn't that where Puck's Catani Phil is, young James?

SPEAKER_07 7:22

Um I mean in Pennsylvania, of course, big state. So yeah, I mean I'm the grand scheme of things, I guess so. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 7:31

Now, is Pennsylvania a state or a commonwealth?

SPEAKER_07 7:34

It's a commonwealth. Okay, now what don't ask me what don't ask me what the difference is, because I have no clue.

SPEAKER_09 7:40

So for some reason it's okay for you to throw strange pop quizzes at me and you don't even know where the hell you're living?

SPEAKER_07 7:46

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_09 7:47

That's great. Well, that's why we bring you on the show. You're fully qualified with no intelligence and that you qualify. Yeah. And sitting with me finally after a number of years and travels around the world and uh high and low and um raising anywhere from 15 to 25 kids. We haven't determined yet how big that school bus was that she sent. She is now in the um finer stage of life, but uh young Joanne Talent is joining us finally after promising James meet meet Joanne, Joanne James.

SPEAKER_00 8:20

Hello, hi Joanne. Nice to meet you.

SPEAKER_07 8:23

You too.

SPEAKER_00 8:24

Glad you could uh come hang out with us for today. Okay, I'm I'm jazzed.

SPEAKER_09 8:28

Yeah, she was very happy to on your pop quiz earlier this week.

SPEAKER_07 8:32

But by the time we're done, you may not be.

SPEAKER_09 8:34

So well we're gonna talk about what it what it means to be a patron, uh what the patron rules are today. Um, but did you watch any of the masters yesterday? I know you are into uh car racing, and then you texted me last night almost like you know it implied that you had a television in your home.

SPEAKER_07 8:56

I I I did. I was watching, I was watching Rory. Yeah. Hopefully Rory doesn't have Tiger driving over the golf course today, so uh he can continue his his running uh repeat.

SPEAKER_09 9:09

Now, you're the first person that's brought Tiger up. Nobody knows where he's at, and we wish him well wherever it is in Switzerland. You know, that's all good. But your uh pop quizzes, I've had a lot of emails uh from people that uh really enjoyed because they could not also answer the you know the question. Some of them did. You know, they they said that they could. But did you have any other further questions for me today, James?

SPEAKER_07 9:35

That was uh my pop quiz. We could uh maybe see if we could dig into the archives for tomorrow. But uh that was uh that was all I had for today.

SPEAKER_09 9:44

Well, we do like to mention that people can find us at golfersgolf and travel on our Facebook account and uh golfersgolf and travel.com. And where a lot of people have been picking us up is we are on 17 major platforms uh just be listened to, like iHeart and Spotify and Deezer and all those major podcasts. But iHeart uh as of yesterday picked us up as one of the hot channels, one of the hot places to go listen. So we're easy to find. We're on the distillery channel logo, which uh if you can read English, it says distillery channel.

SPEAKER_00 10:19

So anyway, it's like the front of a barrel.

SPEAKER_09 10:23

Yeah. That's been our logo for now, since uh, let's see, what is it, 26, 14 years.

unknown 10:31

Wow.

SPEAKER_09 10:32

So you know, we almost have that barrel emptied at this point in time. And uh so this show I wanted to talk about what it means to be a patron down at uh down at Augusta National during the Masters. Now, have you ever heard that terminology, Joanne?

SPEAKER_00 10:50

I have, and I've never heard it out outside of the Masters.

SPEAKER_09 10:54

Well, it is required that they are called patrons, not called fans, not called I don't even know what you call them, ticket holders. Yeah, I don't know. But uh hold on just a minute. Uh I gotta do all my homework here. I had to stretch to my uh bulletin board. Um I have a uh a ticket uh for this past uh yeah, James, I'd be happy to sell you uh a ticket to last Wednesday's uh uh uh day because I didn't use the ticket. There you go. You know, it's it is cheap. It did uh anybody buying a ticket last Wednesday on StubHub uh said you could have bought it for eight thousand dollars.

SPEAKER_01 11:33

Wow.

SPEAKER_09 11:34

But when you do get a ticket at the Masters, now this week there have been people that have been asked to leave, one of which my understanding is was Mark Kalkovecia, former uh significant player on the PGA tour. Um winner on the PJ Tour many times, and really on the PJ tour for a length of time, he decided that he was gonna take his cell phone onto uh the campus of Augusta National and use it. Uh do you know what happened after that, young James?

SPEAKER_07 12:07

I believe they politely or maybe not so politely asked him to vacate the process.

SPEAKER_09 12:14

Well, after extracting four pints of blood. That was it. He was they they do not mess around with that. And um they you are asked to leave. So let me if you had it, if you had a ticket, you get a ticket agreement, and it is a limited license. Uh not just a ticket, and has d uh and a date that it was issued on. And it has a big warning in red, right, Joanne?

SPEAKER_00 12:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 12:46

And it says electronics. Electronic devices, including phones, laptops, tablets, beepers, drones, other electronics are strictly prohibited at all times on the grounds of us and national and any associated hospitality venues, any device being used to record and or transmit voice, video, or data is strictly prohibited. Cameras are strictly prohibited on tournament days and see policies uh further for that. No resale. And this is what, four pages, joining?

SPEAKER_00 13:16

Yeah. It's quite long.

SPEAKER_09 13:20

It's got dispute. I mean, they even have it's a legal document that if you want to take it to an attorney, great. You know, I talk about publication, great. Holders' licenses, release and then demnification. Um and miscellaneous. So anything else, but uh it um let's see, what does miscellaneous say? This agreement constitutes an entire agreement of the parties and it supersedes any prior understandings, agreements, or representations, written or oral, to the extent they relate in any way to the subject matter of this agreement. No oral modification, excuse my French uh President Clinton, uh and this agreement will be deemed valid. Uh what? Don't slap me. Or binding under any circumstances. Failure by Augusta National to enforce any term of the agreement shall not constitute a waiver. So if they make a mistake, yep, they waive the waiver to make the mistake, I guess. Um do you have an attorney, James?

SPEAKER_07 14:25

Uh well, I I do for certain things. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 14:32

Nothing bad, but just you know, like I would strongly suggest having a team of attorneys if you ever decide to buy a ticket, go to the masters.

SPEAKER_07 14:40

It sounds like it because I've had I've had one, you know, kind of review some uh some agreements in the past, and it sounds like that would uh certainly be quite a quite a feat for having to go through uh that agreement before I bought my ticket. Sounds like you might have to give up some children or blood in order to attend that master.

SPEAKER_00 15:00

It does, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_09 15:01

I think it even eliminates uh guys that have pacemakers, any electronic equipment it says. They will extract it for you from you free of charge. Don't go in there with a plate in your head. Um because they will take it with you. Yeah, this is uh what are some of the other options here? Uh and again, let's get back to just introduce and unfold what Joanne Talon is all about. Joanne, what brought you to this show today? What you did. I did. Can I see your ticket?

SPEAKER_08 15:32

Coercion. Yes.

SPEAKER_09 15:33

Can I see your ticket, please? No, I don't have one. Any electronic devices?

SPEAKER_00 15:36

No.

SPEAKER_09 15:37

Nothing. Normally people would wear clothes coming to the show. Joanne decided to opt out. I don't know. I'm really it's a weird.

SPEAKER_00 15:43

That's always that's not fair.

SPEAKER_09 15:44

That's not fair, nor is it truthful. It isn't anything else. We did uh spend this last summer. One of the things Joanne does like to do is travel, and uh we were up north and our friend Bob went back to his uh shed in the north of the icy ponds in the snow, but we traveled up there last summer and we hope to get on the road in May. And uh but uh of last summer. What are the things you like to visit what are the things you like to visit? Because we do have a show that's called Golfers, Golf and Travel.

SPEAKER_00 16:17

Well, I enjoyed and we've done it before, I enjoyed going up to Lake Superior. Um it's an incredible body of water. Reminiscent of Lake Michigan, but it's bigger. I mean, as in, you know, you look at the water and it could be an ocean, but you don't see the edges. So it's um it's big.

SPEAKER_09 16:42

Um one of the things that we enjoyed up there is that they had this big tap. What do they call it? Chittawa. Yeah, how would you even describe that?

SPEAKER_00 16:56

In history, in past history of this country. It was a it was a gathering, usually under a tent, or you'd have a big tent where you would gather with other people and you would learn things. It would be uh or you would enjoy things. Maybe storytelling. This one was uh they put on all about uh the history um the area where we were, which is it was Ashland, Wisconsin. Which was Ashland, which is very close to Lake Superior.

SPEAKER_09 17:43

Well, in fact, it's on Lake Superior. There you go. You can sit in Ashland and put your feet in the water. Uh so it not only is it very close, when the waves get big, you're under it. Um one of the th nice things up there, uh our friend has a a uh completely eco-minded cottage, which is absolutely beautiful. It's got the solar panels on top, it's right on a small little lake about oh maybe twenty minutes from Lake Superior. And uh when you get into Ashland, one of the things you you s notice is that there are no restaurant, no, what do they call those box restaurants?

SPEAKER_00 18:20

Or it's no like McDonald's or anything that's no chains.

SPEAKER_09 18:24

No chains, no. And it's all and the food is fantastic. We uh usually have lunch on the rooftop of one of the locations right near the dock, and the dock uh goes over to what's that island that it goes over to goes over to Madeline Island. Yeah, how long was that trip?

SPEAKER_00 18:41

Oh I don't know, twenty or thirty minutes on the water. Uh Madeline Island is an interesting place. It's not a big place. And in the town area, the town surrounds touristy shopping, but they also have uh places where you can go and have a drink. And we went to one and talked to the um I don't know, bartenders or whoever they were, and said, So how many of these people are regulars and how many of these people are tourists? Because we figured it would be tourists, but I don't think it was, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 19:26

No, we thought it was the opposite. We thought it was regulars that were there. And it was tourists. It was all tourists. There were there was about four, they said. That was it. Okay. Yeah, and the and the there was no credit cards, everything had to be done with cash. Weird. Um it's a small island. Actually, the families live there, and kids have to catch uh the boat to go to school and to come back home. Yeah, the ferry. And it's about a 20-minute ferry ride.

SPEAKER_08 19:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 19:57

And they they tell us in the winter uh they have to take those boats that have the big fans on the back. So how would you like to have to get up in the morning, drive your kid to the dock, throw them on a big ferry, you know, it's like twenty below. It's never warm up in Lake Superior. Warm up there is twenty below, you know.

SPEAKER_08 20:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 20:17

You open up you open up your freezer to warm up. Um that's the tr there can be a lot of truth behind that. Anyway, you put your kids on a ferry, and then uh they you have a twenty minute ride to go to school, and then finally somehow they get to school, they learn, then reverse that and take the ferry ride back, and you know, if um if anything they learned didn't fall out their ears uh during the the ferry ride, it it would be remarkable. But a very small island. We drove around in what, about half an hour.

SPEAKER_00 20:48

Maybe a little longer than that, but yeah, you can drive all the way around it. It's small.

SPEAKER_08 20:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:54

And there's a lot of uh undeveloped parts of it. And every once in a while you'll see some sort of a shelter where maybe a human being or family resides. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 21:09

One of the most and of course we were you know looking for little stories, they had this little tent where they were showing how to make how the uh Native Americans, Indians, made canoes and out of birch trees and you know, logs and whatnot. And I went in there with my camera and just took a short snippet and had a couple guys talk about it. Posted it up on Facebook and within a week the ten days had over fifteen thousand people that just took a look at that little snippet. It was interesting, you know. Uh we started uh that trip last summer at the number one supper club in Wisconsin, a place called Ishnala. And uh really, really cool. Uh again, we're Native Americans. It's a little lake just south, little pond basically, just south of Wisconsin Dells. Have you heard of the Wisconsin Dells out in Pennsylvania? It is uh in the top five destinations, number of people that go uh to a place in the summer to be entertained. And it has been there forever. A lot of water slides. Um there's a guy that owns a big water park, same guy that owns the big water park there in Ohio, near you. What is it? Sandusky, Ohio?

SPEAKER_07 22:25

Sandusky, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 22:26

Yeah. That same guy that owns that, I think his last name is Nelson, uh, owns uh a big resort that we stayed at in the Dells. And uh and it is we we were not into getting into the water beings that it was about 55 degrees. So it was it was cool.

SPEAKER_00 22:46

And it was very, very crowded.

SPEAKER_07 22:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:51

Yeah, it's that's not my kind of swimming. I like a little space.

SPEAKER_08 22:57

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 22:59

So we're we we want to gather. I did send out today, and we're gonna make this public because um we did we do have a big magazine coming out at the end of April, and I hate to push it into the first week in May. Um, but we have a media trip coming up uh in the first week of May going to the Myrtle Beach Brunswick Isle area, uh and I really want to get that covered into the magazine. But I put in uh a letter out to companies in the industries, because our tagline says all the good things in life, which means golf, travel, dining, sipping, recreation, family, fun, and spas, and of course for those being sitting right next to me saying spas, please, to cover that so that we go and um you know get some spa treatment and covered in our magazine. Um we hope to do that in the first week of May, but we have right now about six different media uh asks. And uh don't know if you do you like to travel, James?

SPEAKER_07 24:04

Oh yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_09 24:06

I don't know. Do you and your wife travel very much at all?

SPEAKER_07 24:09

Um a little bit. Yeah. Not as you know. Of course, uh, if you had a bigger budget, we could certainly do more of it. But uh yeah, we do a little bit.

SPEAKER_09 24:18

Well, the budgets that we like are people that put us up for free, because we can afford free, and then we cover very effectively. Uh like in these podcasts, we've had uh it is remarkable. We want to thank everybody for listening. Um but in the this week, uh because it's Master's Week, um, we've had nearly 110,000 people a day listening to these podcasts. And uh we can't figure out why, but we'll continue to do them. I don't know why.

SPEAKER_00 24:47

And James, I have to tell you, um I I'm not uh watching a golf tournament is not something that I don't do. Um I've done it since I was a little girl and I watched them with my dad. But watching the masters with Randy, especially, I don't know, this year, maybe it's the first time I've done it, I don't know. It's it's more like a spiritual event.

SPEAKER_09 25:14

Um it is a spiritual event.

SPEAKER_00 25:18

Yeah, he you know, you know he knows a lot because you talk to him, but yeah, it's uh it's just an interesting experience. And you look at that, I have looked at that golf course differently since watching it with him.

SPEAKER_08 25:34

Oh really?

SPEAKER_00 25:35

Yeah, and and you hear how difficult the course is, but if you if you look at it, you know, and he'll point out different things like how the the greens are how the greens are uh made so that you know the ball tends to roll off the green uh and where you have to where you have to hit the ball to get it to just stop. Um it's it's it's it's unusual. It's not the kind of uh golf course that one normally would play. And uh I guess it was designed that way on purpose by Bobby Jones, but it's just been really interesting. Um I appreciate the Masters and Augusta much more now.

SPEAKER_09 26:23

We've been we've been sitting and watching from morning till night, and um and again what Joanna is saying is you know, me watching the Masters since 1958, and of course, certainly uh back when I started playing, nobody I always heard these tales of oh you gotta go play the Masters, you know, four or five years before you understand how to play the Masters. How you can't win the first year. Fuzzy Zeller, who passed away this past year, was um the first one that the fur won it the first year that he tried, that he played as a rookie. And that I'm not even sure that other than the first year that the first guy won as a rookie, that that had ever happened before. And I could be wrong on that, probably am wrong, but um very, very hard to understand the subtleties and how fast those greens are and where you have to you'll sit and you'll look at it, kind of player will look at it, these big greens, you say, Well, can anybody not hit those greens? Well, when they're running at a 14 or 15 stemp, and you know what a stemp is? A stemp is a way it that measures the the fastness of a green. So, in other words, if you had um a thick, you know, best best way to uh illustrate it, if you put it a ball on the shade carpet, that ball wouldn't go very far, you know.

unknown 27:52

Right.

SPEAKER_09 27:52

But if you put that ball on the hallway next to it, that ball is gonna go forever. So that stemp just measures, it's basically a yardstick that's you put a ball at the end of it and you and you pull it up on one end, and when that ball rolls off down out the bottom, it's gonna run out so many feet, and they measure it going both ways, and the average becomes so if it rolls out 15 feet, then the stem becomes 15. If it rolls out 10 feet, it becomes 10. So that's it's nothing other than that. But a higher the number, the quicker the greens, and the more uh delicate you have to be sensitivity-wise to putt. Well, you can get putts that break anywhere from zero to thirty feet. So yeah. So where do you start it, you know, on that 30-foot putt? And um did you ever see that iconic uh chip-in of tigers years ago where the Nike loader rolled in? Okay. Well, that that's the green 16 will show that. And um, so you know, it's it's it's fun to help people understand the subtleties of Augusta. And and typically when I'm just watching it on my own, if I was sitting at my own country club, I keep my mouth shut because you know, everybody with uh, you know, three uh uh beverages of their favorite kind after playing golf become an expert of uh watching professionals play golf.

SPEAKER_07 29:23

Yes, very true.

SPEAKER_09 29:25

You know, and when they miss a putt on the right hand side, they would have made it themselves, you know, easily. A hundred out of a hundred.

SPEAKER_07 29:31

Absolutely. Well, that I mean, you know, that's Monday morning quarterback is uh applies to every single sport.

SPEAKER_09 29:39

So well, it's so amazing. If you go when I go to a tournament, it almost drives me crazy. Typically, when I go to a tournament, I just go to the driving range to watch the guys practice and warm up. Because you for me, that's just where I learn a lot. I could give two craps about watching them playing the course. I rarely, all the times we've been to, I mean, we'd never go really watch. Yeah, but not not there to watch the you know, no.

SPEAKER_00 30:02

We don't walk around the course following people, no.

SPEAKER_09 30:05

No. Um media credentials. I stay near the media media, the media area. Uh we were up at Aaron Hills at the U.S. Open a number of years ago. Bruce Kepka, Brooks Kepka won that. And uh the media center had such great food in it that uh I only gained eight pounds over the week. That's all. True story. They wouldn't, I would not leave under any circumstances. They the media centers are huge, they got great screens in there, it's cool, you can see the whole tournament. Uh you can go to the freezer and pull out O'Henry bars or fudge sickles or pastas or I mean more food than you could. I told Art Strickland, who's on our team, he and I were covering it together. I said, How much weight you gained this week? You know. Strange stories. Johanna and I were watching that tournament. Did go out for a walk one day, and all of a sudden, uh, this is a true story. A golf cart passes us by, and wrapped up in the back of the golf cart is a body in a body bag.

SPEAKER_00 31:14

Oh, jeez. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 31:16

Yeah. Guy had uh strangely it turned out to be a sweet story. A guy owned the farm next to Aaron Hills, was in his eighties, he was waiting for the tournament to be played there, always wanted to go over and watch it, and uh he he fulfilled every dream and uh successfully passed into his second lifetime while standing there watching.

SPEAKER_07 31:37

And uh I mean I guess there's worse ways to go, right?

SPEAKER_00 31:41

Yeah, that's what you think. It's just it was uh it just rolled right in front of us. I think he was with his son and uh I think the son's had well we heard that the son said that that was what he wanted to do. He was in his he was as happy as could be doing the thing he loved.

SPEAKER_09 32:04

So yeah. So yeah, he was just dying to get to the course, you know, it's really weird. I was interviewing a a professional the same week, and they had this guy that went up in a hot air balloon tethered uh to get, I guess, drone pictures and stuff. And I had my camera going, literally had my camera going, and all of a sudden I see the drone catch on fire.

SPEAKER_00 32:26

The drone or the balloon?

SPEAKER_09 32:28

Balloon. The balloon balloon, the guy flying is in a balloon, a hot air balloon. Oh, wow, tethered to the ground. And I watch him stream to the ground, flaming all the way to the ground, catch it on camera, thought, I finally got my viral moment in America. You know, I did post it, ended up being nothing, but the guy had survived, and the company that hired him brought another balloon out the next day and said, Get in, boy. Going back. Oh my god, I couldn't believe it. Yeah, some of the things we've seen at golf courses, it's it's pretty remarkable. Um, anyway, I've I just wanted to wrap up uh being a patron. Um, you know those chairs that they sit in down at the Masters? Those chairs cost between 30 to 40 bucks. And basically, I want to just go over the rules. Now, when you go down there next year, so you don't get kicked out, young James, because I know you are a real rabble rouser.

SPEAKER_07 33:26

Yes, I'm I'm quite the quite the rabble rouser.

SPEAKER_09 33:30

And now that we have Joanne joining us, we're gonna have to tie her, you know, to the rules in Joanne just are like oil and water. You forget them, you just throw them away. It means nothing. Uh see a stop sign. Uh to her, it's only a suggestion. You know, it's uh still she'll stop twice the next time. Um, but let's just go over the fun facts of uh being a patron at the Masters. Uh August number one, Augusta does not call them fans, they are patrons, respect tradition in the exclusivity, they say. At Augusta, you are not a spectator, you are part of the tradition. So, James, you can become part of the tradition. This has this doesn't that say a big red X, Joanne? Yes. So when you go there, do you know what that red X means, Joanne?

SPEAKER_00 34:17

Instant ejection.

SPEAKER_09 34:19

Yeah. Instant ejection. Yeah. Instant. And that could be number one, use of a cell phone on the course. Number two, I will never get caught or thrown out for this.

SPEAKER_00 34:31

Running.

SPEAKER_09 34:31

Running. Uh Joanne, has big red X by it.

SPEAKER_00 34:37

I'm not loud or disruptive. What I don't do that.

SPEAKER_09 34:41

Okay, louder disruptive behavior? No. I wonder if you can just cheer for an eagle. Not sure. Uh asking players for an autograph during play uh will get you thrown out.

SPEAKER_07 34:52

Yeah, I can see where that would be a big mono.

SPEAKER_09 34:54

Yeah. And uh bringing prohibited items, bags, cameras on tournament days are prohibited. Uh the line that we put with that is you don't get a warning in Augusta, you just disappear.

SPEAKER_07 35:14

Never to be seen or heard from again.

SPEAKER_09 35:16

Yeah, there's uh his name is Guido, that has a you know, part of the southern um, you know, Gambachi family. Well, absolutely banned during tournament rounds, no ringing or no texting and no photos. So do not ring, whatever that means. I would assume if you don't have it. Yeah, not even an earring, young young James, no earrings.

SPEAKER_07 35:40

Oh, that's good.

SPEAKER_09 35:42

Uh then that's uh why it feels different. I guess do you hear the birds? Not notifications. So anyway, but when you are rewarded when you get there, I did mention this earlier in the week, wanted to follow up by it, and uh the low prices have remained in effect for uh dining at its best. Pimento cheese sandwich, buck and a half, egg salad sandwich, buck and a half, barbecue sandwich, three bucks. A beer, five dollars. Soft drinks, two bucks. It's the only major sporting event in America where food prices feel like 1975.

SPEAKER_07 36:20

Yeah, that's pretty good.

SPEAKER_09 36:21

Yeah, it really is pretty good. Uh 1975. Can you imagine? What were you doing in 1975, James?

SPEAKER_07 36:27

I was ten years old, so I'm sure I was in school.

SPEAKER_09 36:30

Are you sure you were 10 years old?

SPEAKER_07 36:32

Really? I was ten years old.

SPEAKER_09 36:35

You know, I went back and checked out uh my mom had a baby book uh for me. And I was just going through some stuff years ago. And I looked in there, and the year I was born was crossed out and a year later, uh written in. So they crossed out 1948 and wrote in 1949. Did you know that? That's a true fact of my baby book.

SPEAKER_00 36:56

I I do, and I always have I always wonder if you're really a year older than you think you are.

SPEAKER_09 37:01

Maybe that's why I was always big in first grade.

SPEAKER_00 37:03

Yeah, I I don't know.

SPEAKER_09 37:05

Why would you cross out 1948? Why would you would you not know the the the year you're first born? You would think. Oh my god. I am could be a year older. Maybe they meant 1946, maybe I'm a year younger. You know, big numbers in Freeport, they're always hard. The chair tradition, and you know those little chairs, those little green chairs, James?

SPEAKER_08 37:30

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_09 37:31

So those cost 30 to 40 bucks. Patrons bring their own master's chairs, they set them down anywhere. Anywhere. Nobody touches them. By the way, when they set up the the ropes and the posts, they do that by geo um positioning from the past year. Those posts go in exactly the same place they went in the year before. Every post has its uh geo fencing.

SPEAKER_07 37:59

Wow.

SPEAKER_09 37:59

Down to the inch.

SPEAKER_07 38:01

That's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_09 38:02

You know, as they say on the commercials, no detail is left. Overworked or under unturred. Do you know if did you know that they could they have a thing called sub-air, James?

SPEAKER_07 38:15

What's that?

SPEAKER_09 38:16

Yeah, no. It's like a vacuum. It's under the greens. If they get flooded, they can suck the water out of the greens from the bottom up, bottom down.

SPEAKER_08 38:26

Seriously?

SPEAKER_09 38:27

Yeah. Yeah. And I believe it's hole number 12. And again, I'm gonna put an asterisk by this because I gotta check it out and going from old, old, old, old information. But I believe there's a room under hole number 12, actually, with all that equipment to make sure that hole number 12 stays as beautiful as it is, because anytime you tuck up a green in the woods, like that one's tucked into, the hardest thing to do is grow grass on it. And um that one is exactly one of those places. But getting back to the master's chairs, you can leave your chair there all day. You put your name on it, there's a little card holder in there. Uh, you can go walk the course, you can come back. That place is still yours. It may be the only place in the world you can reserve a seat with trust. So that's pretty good. Yeah. Uh chairs are taken home or left for the next day by the owner if you have multiple day tickets. They are not resold by Augusta. Many patrons return year after year with the same chair. Some families have used the same spot for decades. Wow. You know, they never go home. They're sitting there being fed pimento sandwiches at Christmas.

SPEAKER_07 39:46

365 days a year.

SPEAKER_09 39:47

Thanksgiving is your egg salad and your beer. All right. Hardest ticket to find in sports to get is the master's ticket.

SPEAKER_07 39:57

How about that?

SPEAKER_09 39:58

They do have a lottery system. You can get them legally, and badges are passed down through families and by will and trust. You don't pay your way in the masters, you inherit your way in. And uh basically, while the players battle the course, the patrons are part of something just as rare. A sporting experience built on honor, respect, and tradition. Something you simply don't see anywhere else in the world. And that is without question. They are just there to be fans. And um patrons. Oh, I said that wrong. Am I thrown out of this segment?

SPEAKER_00 40:37

I don't know.

SPEAKER_09 40:38

I'm thrown out. I don't know. We just wanted to educate you on that. Uh, and now there will be a pop quiz next year on that, James. Just want you to know you are getting a lot of uh traction in terms of fanage. Have you had anybody ask you for your autograph yet while you've been out?

SPEAKER_07 40:57

Not yet, but I I anticipate it starting soon.

SPEAKER_09 41:00

Well, you're uh you're now uh part of the media team. I did include you in this media letter, and uh we do have uh companies because we're gonna be on camera as we go forward, we're gonna be going doing these events, playing golf tournaments. Some of us are actually gonna be demonstrating golf skills, uh, telling stories as they give golf lessons to people while we're on these media events. That would be myself uh again, and I gotta get my game. I really got to get my game in shape, Joanne.

SPEAKER_00 41:29

I do game is incredible. No, it's you have an incredible game.

SPEAKER_09 41:34

Yeah, she's I've got her convinced. I I've been I think she's watching my hologram.

SPEAKER_00 41:40

No.

SPEAKER_09 41:40

Something like that.

SPEAKER_00 41:41

It's always fun to play with you.

SPEAKER_09 41:44

It uh I'm just lucky in one of those things. You don't get hands like these by uh going to uh going to daycare. Um we were talking about I was telling her this morning, well, one of the most frustrated I see these guys, and of course the guys are driving long and hard and they're driving in the woods all morning. And um as I told Joanne, I said, my early days of playing, all I did, I got so frustrated when I joined the club because it's tight fairways, and basically they say the country club I joined, what you need is not um golf clubs and a golf ball, you need uh a bow and arrow and a lot of arrows in your quiver because that's the only thing that'll fit down our fairways, um, because they were so narrow. And uh so you had to learn how to drive the golf ball. And she says, Well, how'd you learn how to drive the golf ball? Remember that this morning? Yeah, I do. Yeah, you would you like to describe my hands to anybody at this point in time?

SPEAKER_00 42:40

Uh no.

SPEAKER_09 42:44

Why?

SPEAKER_00 42:45

They're hard to describe.

SPEAKER_09 42:47

Why?

SPEAKER_00 42:48

Well, they have lots of bumps on them. Uh arthritis, I am sure.

SPEAKER_09 42:53

They're lovely.

SPEAKER_00 42:54

No.

SPEAKER_09 42:55

Very lovely. I'm a handful.

SPEAKER_00 42:58

They look good closed around a golf club.

SPEAKER_09 43:00

I'm a hand model, James. You know.

SPEAKER_08 43:02

Yes, here you go.

SPEAKER_09 43:03

You know, if you put a good manicure on this, they they can't even tell the difference between me and uh what was that movie? King Kong, the guy on the side of the building. Actually had a guy in my past life who was a photographer and sitting there in a bar, and he says, You have to let me photograph those hands. It's a true story. And he put them in a light box and did it in black and white and in color, and and I said, I don't know whether to be honored or humiliated. So if you hit two million shots early in the morning before you go to work and you do it over 40 years, and you're trying to get the ball in the middle of the fairway, and you're making your squaring up the face to do it, your hands get lumpy. And you never want to shake hands with another golfer that has the same hands as you because you will have to call the fire department to have them untangled. My grandkids always say they call me Grampy Don't say, Grampy, put your hands together like you did the last time. Anyway, James, uh being part of the media team, people really love heaven. They love that. Justin Rhodes. Uh it's going to be Rory McElroy without a question. Um the guy that uh coming forward, so anyway, James, we got the music coming on. James, thanks for being with us today. It's been great. And Joanne, thank you.

SPEAKER_07 45:50

Always a pleasure.

SPEAKER_09 45:51

It's always a pressure being with you too.

SPEAKER_00 45:54

Thank you.

SPEAKER_09 45:55

Thank you, Joanne.

SPEAKER_00 45:57

It wasn't as bad as I thought.

SPEAKER_09 46:01

Alright. Well, Easter Sunday we'll be back.

SPEAKER_03 46:05

Did I miss that?

SPEAKER_09 46:07

That was last week. I'm not gonna miss tomorrow. Everybody tune in tomorrow. This is golfers, golf, and travel, and don't forget to always leave a better footprint because that's just what my grandfather said to do. And the show has been brought to you by Distillery Channel LLC. Anyway, James, thanks much. Have a great day, Joanne. Thank you to you. And it is Masters Saturday. It's moving day. Let's go watch. This is just another little song dedicated to the Master.

SPEAKER_03 46:38

How to talk to you soon. Bye bye. Nothing's good. Every inch you earn. Where the past and tall and the fairway shine. Where the past meets the present every time. You can feel it in the wind, hear it in the crowd. It's a place where the game doesn't speak too loud. They've been cornered green. Get down in a good job. Dreams are revealed. Not by power, but the way they feel. Sunlight dancing through those Georgia trees. History riding on a southern breeze. Freddy came out like he never left. Two birdies quick, just a gentle breath. Still chasing that same old song down at a little. She showed a teeth, took a few dreams down to their knees. Thirteen gave a moment to fly. Lowry's eagle in that southern sky. But 15 or she turned real cold. Story shifting legends full. That's a gust that she don't pretend to build you up just to test you again. Where the pine stands tall and the fairway shine. Where the past meets the present every time. You can feel it in the way. Without a sound. Now every April the world comes round to off that hollow ground. Where the past and tall and legends live. Where you take your shot and you learn to give. Yeah, down in Augusta, hearts are revealed.

SPEAKER_01 50:50

At Augusta National, you don't just play the game. You feel it.

SPEAKER_03 51:25

Ask with a good heart, son. That's where it starts. It ain't about pushing or shouting the loudest. It's a soft spoken questions that open up hearts. Can this don't cost you a nickel? But it'll buy you the world if you try. Life of a prince is sand sparkle. Before the next wave rolls by Leave a better footprint. Leave a better mark. It's the love in your words level out of the dark. Chase sunsets from here to the sea. I've seen a smile turn strangers to family. And a gentle word set a soul free. Kindness don't cost you a nickel, but it'll buy you the world if you try. Like footprints in sand, let 'em sparkle.