Anyone going to TPC? I've been to a bunch of them over the years. Crowds should be way down this week for obvious reasons.
My most memorable experience was in '92. I lived in S. Jax Beach at the time which is on the cusp of Ponte Vedra. Free tickets to round 4 were floating all over the beaches. A buddy went with me and we arrived early on Sun. We were crossing a fairway which when we looked had nobody playing on it. We were about halfway across the fairway when we heard from the tee box, "WOOO HOOO, YEEEEE HAAWWWW!!!! We hustled across the fairway as two tee shots came whizzing down right past us- like rifle shots one after the other.
WTH? Frozen in our tracks we watched John Daly and Mark Calcavecchia come jogging down the fairway, run up to their balls and without even a practice swing they launched their next shots and hustled after them. We learned later that they were the first to tee off that morning, decided they had nothing to lose and decided to play as fast a round as possible and get the hell out of there. They finished in 2 hours, 3 minutes and were both fined by then commish Deane Beman for not playing their best golf.
Predictably, Daly was one hot Razorback when he heard about the fine. "Me and Mark, we just wanted to have some fun today," he said. "We just wanted to show the fans a good time, and I think they enjoyed it. They didn't care what we shot. I can't believe they're saying they're going to fine us."
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Another time around the same era I was a huge Jack Nicklaus fan. I was following him around and he had just teed off and walked right past me. I said, "Go for it Jack!" He looked right at me and said, "go for what?"
Needless to say, I was no longer a fan of Jack.