by Joel Baker
Great article. It's interesting to me that golf would be feeling a pinch since, according to a Newsweek article (see http://tinyurl.com/c649ac), unemployment for college-educated white people (i.e. golf's core demographic) stands at just 2.3 percent in the most most recent data available. Yet, Mark said it: Irrational FEAR is keeping golfers home. Enough already!

by kjm
things must have changed alot in 5 years. we went down last year and paid big bucks for the monday practice round. unless you want to wait until late afternoon to enter the grounds you will not find tickets anywhere near face value. but, seeing the course, soaking up the atmosphere, and getting some nice gifts etc was worth every penny

by Lee King
Who are you kidding? I agree that all serious golfers need to make the pilgrimage to Augusta, but you will not score practice round tickets or any other ticket without big bucks or some inside pull from your job as a golf writer. Practice round tickets have been on a lottery system for years and you aren't just competing against fellow golfers for the chance to buy.You are competing against a world full of big money business expense accounts,foreign tourists,scalpers, and various other people in it for the money and not for the love of the place or its place as one of the greatest golf venues in the world.I have been fortunate to have gone many times over my 54 years but it is only because you use to could buy practice round tickets at the gate and my parents have had tickets for many decades.Go if you can but take lots of money.The food once you get inside is a great deal but getting inside is still the hard part.