Marcus and I met my Dad and Jacque in Lakeway today to watch a professional golf tournament. The course was played by the "seniors", players over 50. It was fun for us because we used to play a PGA game in the 1990s when all of these players were in their primes. We knew their names as video game characters.
The course was beautiful. Dad had played it before and knew the perfect spots for us to take it all in. We sat on a hillside where we could see the players come in and putt hole 2, but could also see them tee off over water (and sometimes not) on a par 3 at hole 3. We sat there for well over an hour watching them come in and go on.
We spent a little time at hole 1 watching them tee off for the day. In the white shirt on the tee box is Fuzzy Zoeller. I remember his unique name from watching golf before. He was SMOKING between shots. I find that so odd. Another player threw his cigar in the grass when he putted and then picked it back up and put it in his mouth.We also saw Austinites Tom Kite (his name was a typo in the program, Tim Kite), Ben Crenshaw, and the very funny Craig Sadler. He went into the woods on hole 2 and recovered with an impressive put to take par on the hole. Afterward when the crowd cheered, he put his club in the air and twirled it to say whoop-t-do. It was quite funny!
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