Walt Visits The 2010 Master's Tournament

It sounds very civilized:

People can get very close to the players. We were about 20 feet way from Tiger Woods and other golfers, several times. We saw a lot of the big shots: Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Vijay Singh, Angel Cabrera, Larry Mize, and others. Since they were practicing, and not playing for real, they spent a lot of time putting in various directions. They put tees in the ground at different places on the green, and putted towards them. It’s because during the actual tournament, the hole gets moved around, so the players don’t know where it will be from day to day. So they were practicing putting at various places.

Tiger Woods had three security guys walking with him. I heard that at the 3rd hole, somebody in the crowd hollered out a rude remark, and the guy was immediately removed. So if other people didn’t like Tiger, they kept quiet. A lot of people applauded Tiger and the other golfers.

Every golf course I’ve ever been to had lots of divots around the tee-off places. However, these guys at the National don’t hit the ground with their clubs. There were no divots in the green, anywhere. On one hole, I think #16, there was a long pond covering at least half the space between the tee-off place and the green. Most of the golfers intentionally drove the balls into the pond, and the balls skipped like a stone across the water and landed on the green beyond. That was something really cool to see.