The Masters- Augusta, GA

So we went to the Masters in Augusta, GA on Monday. We drove to Athens Sunday night and stayed at a hotel with some friends of Trey's from Texas. (I was the only girl). We had to get up at 4:00 AM to make the drive into Augusta since Athens was still a 2 hour drive from Augusta. But if you wanted to stay near the Masters you would have to pay around $300 a night! We got to Augusta National and made it in by 8:30. It was so cool! The greens were incredible not a blade of grass out of place. The azaleas were gorgeous and in full bloom. The pro shop was like a mad house people were loading up baskets of golf shirts, club head covers, towels, prints and hats. Money was no option it seemed and they were spending 100s of 1000s of dollars. The cheapest golf shirt I saw was $60 and most of them were over $100! It was crazy. Although the concession stands still serve egg salad and other sandwiches for $1.50 with drinks only $1.00. We walked the course which was tougher than I thought it would be on me. I guess Camden has gotten so big that he is pushing up on my diaphragm making it hard to get a deep breath and making me out of breath easily. The course was extremely hilly so I was struggling through a lot of it. Trey was really sweet though if I said I needed a break we would stop and I would open my tripod chair and sit. He never complained about me slowing him down. The best part was that we got to see Tiger Woods on three different holes. He was all business and seemed to have tunnel vision and the crowds didn't phase him. We posted up at 16 for a while it is the par 3 that the golfer has to hit over a pond onto the green. It is the hole that Tiger hit a few years ago where he chipped it up on the green it rolled to the edge of the hole and hung on the lip until it dramatically fell in and everyone erupted! But the tradition is for the golfers on practice round days to skip the ball across the water and try for the green. A few golfers did it and everyone loved it. It was a fun trip and I'm glad we got to go especially Trey it was like a once in a lifetime deal and he was so excited. It is like going to the Mecca of golf and I'm glad we got to go! The pics are kind of dark because it was overcast and my digital camera went missing so all I had was a 35 mm so that explains the low quality of this images. Most of these are of Tiger since that is who we followed most of the day, there is a shot of 16 and part of Amen's corner. One pic is of the guys we referred to as the "whippers" they just walked down the course before the golfer and took these long pointed whips and swung them across the fairways I guess knocking off the dew. It was weird.