April 4, 2017, Masters

Hi everyone,

Today we visited Augusta National Golf Course to see a practice round in preparation for Thursday's start. The weather was great after the Monday practice round was washed out.  When we were getting close to the course, there were many people beside the street looking to either buy or sell tickets even though Augusta National prohibits doing it.

 The free parking lot was already full with very few places to spare.

  After a little bit of a walk, we went through security and had our tickets checked.

As we walked on, there was a huge line of people waiting to get into the gift shop.  We were thinking that people wanted to get items before they ran out.  Practically no chance of that as there are web sites still selling 2016 merchandise.Over the course of the tournament, Augusta National hires about 1300 security people as well as many high school students to help guide people through certain areas.

We had not seen some of the front 9 the last time we were here so we walked past the clubhouse to the 1st Tee.

Right nearby is the 18th green, where it all will end on Sunday.

This is looking towards the 18th fairway.  When watching the tournament on TV it really doesn't show how much uphill and downhill the course has.

We saw Phil coming up towards the 2nd hole where he easily made a birdie.

Phil's caddy, Bones Mackay taking a rest.  This was after we watched several people skipping golf balls across the pond on the 16th.

After enough walking, Grammie and her best friend stopped 

for a pic in front of the leaderboard and then called it a day.

Thanks for keeping up with Grammie's golf activity.