Practice Pratice Practice

Back in April the fine folks at the Augusta National opened up a lot­tery allow­ing the hoi pol­loi a chance at actual tour­na­ment badges for the 2012 Mas­ters. What the heck, we have been extremely unlucky in the lot­tery for prac­tice round tick­ets the last decade or more, maybe we will have a chance at see­ing the real thing. While we were there we also took another shot at a cou­ple prac­tice round tick­ets too.

About a month ago we got an email telling us to log on to masters.com and see if we were selected for a daily tour­na­ment badge. All excited about the pos­si­bil­ity, we logged on, only to have our hopes crushed. We didn’t get in.

Today we got the sec­ond email from the Mas­ters orga­ni­za­tion telling us to log in and see if we were selected for prac­tice rounds tick­ets. We were not really expect­ing much, so it made for a pleas­ant sur­prise that we were granted the priv­i­lege of attend­ing Tuesday’s prac­tice round next year.

When I say priv­i­lege, I mean priv­i­lege, because the cost of one ticket for one prac­tice round is $50, or a 1000% higher than they were when we first went 21 years ago.