FalseFlagg K
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Arnold Palmer has passed away RIP to a sports icon ..
RIP The King
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Miggs
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How'd you get tix for this? It's a lottery system as far as I know but did you get tix some other way?
UGLI baby
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My Uncle has been a Marshal at the tournament for the last 20 years (think one of those guys that holds up the "quiet please" signs.)
It's super hard to get on as a Marshal, but once you're in you're in for life. Each year he gets 4 passes to all 4 days of the practice rounds and to the par 3 tournament. He then trades some of those tickets for one day of the actual tournament.
He invites different people each year. I've been in 2004 & 2009, was invited a couple years ago but couldn't make it. In 2004 I went to 3 practice rounds and the Par 3 tournament. In 2009 I went to the practice rounds, par 3 tourney, and the opening round of the tournament.
When I was there in 2009, tickets for one day of the tournament were going for about $1,000 and practice round tickets about $250 on the secondary market.
If you ever had a chance to go, I'd go to the practice round. The whole point of it is to see the course in my opinion. It's totally surreal, like walking into a piece of Heaven. The real tournament days are great, but for the price the practice rounds are awesome, it's not like going to a preseason NBA game or something (I wouldn't go to that for free).
Another perk my Uncle gets is to play the course one day each year. I've gotta find a way to get on the course one day.