My hubby and I were offered a pair of cheap sports tickets to go to the Masters later this week, but we had to decline the offer. We had already made plans to entertain his daughter and her boyfriend when they were coming down here for a visit at the same time as the Masters. To be perfectly honest, I think that I’m just as happy staying home and watching the tournament on television than physically being there, but the biggest reason for that is I do not tolerate heat very well, and I do not enjoy standing on my feet for hours on end and being in crowds. I truly do understand how difficult it is to play golf, I have tried to play it a few times myself. There is a lot of practice and skill and athletic ability in playing that game. But when I am in a crowd, I find that I get very anxious, almost to the point of having a panic attack! I find myself having a memory “flash back” to the time that I was standing in line to see the Rolling Stones in concert on the 4th of July in 1972. The crowd got very restless and started shoving people. That scared me to no end; I thought that I was going to be crushed to death! Ever since then I’ve tried really hard to avoid crowds.
So, every time I watch a golf tournament on television it appears to me that there are crowds of fans stationed at different holes, standing around waiting to see one of the players walk by. Seems as if they are standing in the hot sun, and every now and then one of the members of the audience gets beaned by a stray golf ball. Good grief, that must hurt like a son-of-a-gun! I think that if the courses had some comfortable seats for the audience, with plenty of shade, big fans to move the air, and some food vendors nearby I’d consider going. But then again, you know what? I’d rather give the Masters tickets to a real diehard fan to enjoy the show while I sat in comfort at the nineteenth hole.
