I used to go to practice rounds of the Masters...12 of us from work would go play at Persimmon Hill in South Carolina the weekend before the Masters...On Monday and Tuesday, we’d drive over to Augusta a few miles away...Back then, we could get in for 10 bucks on Monday and 15 on Tuesday...
I watched Bernhard Langer on the practice green give away a dozen balls to kids. He putt toward the hole, then putt it close a kid...The kid would start to throw it back and he’d say “No, just keep it...It won’t go in the hole...”
he has been a hero of mine since that...
lol I played Persimmon Hills often. It was much nicer than “Bogeyville”... but, I played there too.
The first day I was on the grounds, security literally had to ask me to leave. I think I would have spent the night.
Near sunset, I was standing by the practice green watching Hal Sutton putt. He missed 4 in a row from 4 feet ABOVE a hole. Then, he moved very near to me, and drained four putts in a row from BELOW the hole. He turned to me, just a few feet away.. and, with NO ONE else around and said, “Well, I guess we know which side of the hole to be on, don’t we?”
I concurred.