Wanna Hang With Billy Casper at the Masters?
by Ryan Ballengee on Feb 3, 2010 9:58 AM EST
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PrintPlowing through my inbox after the PGA Show, I saw a note that caught my eye. (Hint to my PR friends: this is how you get my attention.) Its subject: "Billy Casper Masters Experience." Yes, please.
Casper donated a few tickets to the Masters this year for auction to benefit a charity called Let 'Em Play, that promotes youth programs for kids who wouldn't otherwise have the financial means to participate.
This package is for two people to attend the 2010 Masters Golf tournament on Thursday, April 8th and Friday, April 9th with Casper. If you win, you and a guest will receive badges for the first two days of the tournament along with hotel accommodations for two nights. On Thursday, you will be with Billy Casper. On Friday, it's all you.
Sounds like a good deal.
You can bid on that item until the end of the day today! The current bid is 5Gs, so liquidate your bank account!
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I checked it out and the current bid is indeed $5,000
There is a reserve minimum bid on the tickets I see. I’d guess it’s around 10 grand.
"pain is only weakness leaving the body"
GUL DARN IT
cOURT, snap those up and give um to EM to salve his feelings from the Super Dud…STUB
Stub......Don't make me come over there!!
Don’t worry…….unless you’re playing front of me today, you’ll be safe. You probably have rain today…..gets here tonight and tomorrow……gotta play today!
The Saints are in the SUPER BOWL....WHO DAT!
Yea em,
I am going to go get some of those water wings the kids wear…after the rain, it’s gonna get colder then Billy’s Blue Nosed Goat again….in the 20’s…Hey Wendy, a guy asked me if I still played in the 70’s…I said yes, any colder than that and I stay home….yuk,yuk,yuk…STUB
I can see
right now, you lack the pioneering spirit…get out of the barn, err house yet?,,,STUB
Nope - but got 3 tee-times for next week
plus hitting the range tomorrow – followed by pub lunch. I’m happy – how ’bout you?
Nothing spectacular
Big bowl of soup and a ploughmans, but excellent quality. Couple of half pints of local brew “Old Dick”. Sir, moaning that his hands hurt and he had twisted his neck on the driving range, consoled himself with a great hamburger (+ cheese/bacon) and chips (& then moans about his weight). Did think of you all (briefly) as The Golden Lion pub was used to plan D-Day landings (photos of Ike, etc) and is next to HMS Dryad naval base.
Cheers!
what’s a ploughmans ? why not just a whole pint ? (seriously – difference in drinking a half pint at a time ?) What’s the cheese of choice ? (I got introduced to Stilton at Cruden Bay – best burger I’ve ever had !)
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
If she drinks a half-pint at a time,
odds increase some bloke will buy her the next half-pint, no, Wendy?
by TXQ on Feb 4, 2010 1:48 PM EST up reply actions
Mathematically you are correct
but I was expecting something along the lines of “because she IS a half-pint”.
A Ploughmans
is a big chunk of bread, cheese of choice, usually cheddar, + pickles (can be pickled onions, chutney, mustard pickle). This can be totally naff or totally divine, depending on the quality of the ingredients. Sir had simple cheddar on his burger. Stilton is considered the King of blue cheeses over here, but personally I prefer French Roquefort, as I find Stilton a bit “soapy”.
I’m sure it’s the same in US, but it’s considered bad form not to buy a round for one’s drinking partners. I’m a slow beer drinker so if someone else bought the first round,
(and it was my round next) I would still be nursing my whole pint when all the blokes had finished theirs, so it’s easier for me to drink half pints. I don’t know if I’m making sense with that? Anyway my capacity for wine/whisky is greater than my capacity for beer.
Gotcha, Wendy, and I would
surely buy you a round if I were in London. Jut maybe not top shelf.
by TXQ on Feb 4, 2010 2:17 PM EST up reply actions
I'd sub you the train fare from London
to Portsmouth on that basis – the first round would then be on you of course. Does “top shelf” refer to spirits?
No, I was just being polite. Since you've said
you’re on the short side, I’d want you to be able to reach it.
Yes, top shelf here means the best in the house/bar/pub.
by TXQ on Feb 4, 2010 4:43 PM EST up reply actions
Cheapskate!
I was only going to order “Ham , Egg ’n Chips”s anyway. With ketchup and mustard on the side.
Brilliant !
There is a lot more to social pub ettiquette over there than over here. I’m like you – a nurser of beverages – and almost I almost broke the “buy a round” rule the first day in Scotland. They went easy on me and explained later. Never considered the half pint option. Have to remember that for the next trip.
Didn’t know Stilton was a bleu cheese, either.
Pickled onions ?? never heard of a pickled onion.
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
It's still pretty strict
If you got out with married couples, for example, only the blokes would probably go up to the bar to order the drinks, (even when Sir asks me for the cash to pay for it) but if you’re with work colleagues of both sexes, you’re all equal. We would only go out once a week at lunchtime for a drink, but if there were 6/8 of us,(and 2 pints would be the limit) everyone would “know” whose round it was from the previous week. Failure to buy your round = “social death”.
I think pickled onions would be a taste too far for you, Court. They are small onions marinated in vinegar and spices. Disgusting if you have not been brought up on them. Delicious if you have.
I’d probably get talked into at least trying one – just never heard of a pickled onion.
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
I was based there for 6 months Wendy
back in ‘75…I’m sure I went in that pub a few times. In the base, there was Wrens of course…the 5 or 6 storey block they resided in was known as “Tampax tower”…gotta love the humour, lol.
Best of luck for the comp, Easing
I’m ridicously looking forward to meeting up with all my heckling friends as well as actually playing golf – or is it hockey? – anyway, I recall it’s a game with sticks of some kind. Anyone for lacrosse? Wasn’t the tennis incredible?
Thanks Wendy
Have a good time when you meet up. Next month, there is hopefully good weather and still some cracking good winter deals to be had. We are going to Malton & Norton GC for a round and a full English brekkie…20 quid. Check out your area, there are bound to be some going…it’s a great way to meet up before the season starts proper.
EASING,
a bunch of stuff for you…What kind of comp are you playing, pay never no mind to Wendy, it apparent she still can’t get out the drive way….First try with the new sticks…want to hear how ya did.. You used WE in going to the club…dragging the BW along are ya?…won’t that result in your having to go shopping with her again?…some people are slow learners…Tiger never to Elin along…and whats a full English brekkie?…don’t tell me it consists of Bangers….STUB
Full English bekkie...
2 eggs…2 rahers of bacon….2 sausages..fried tomato …baked beans…fried mushrooms…black pudding…and hash browns too if you are hungry…really healthy, lol.
Didn't one of you Brits
call it “brekkie” yesterday, as in short for breakfast, I figured. Now the R is well hidden.
by TXQ on Feb 4, 2010 5:56 PM EST up reply actions
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