Now, you have to get into a lottery for practice round tickets. Before the lottery, this town was crawling with fans waiting to see the pros. Now? ...forget it.
We won the lottery the year before last and went to one of the practice rounds. I took about 200 pictures of the course and the players. Got pictures of Tiger and Jack Nicklaus. It was just terrific. Then the most disappointing thing happened...my camera went missing as we were leaving the course. It wasn't turned in and no one found it. I was just sick.
We are back in the lottery again, but people wait years to win, and some never do. I didn't care about the camera so much as I did the pictures. That might have been a once in a lifetime experience. And never again to get Jack at the Master's.