Saturday, August 15, 2009

Saturday at the PGA

It was moving day at the PGA as we moved from one hotel to another. It turns out our hotel is the official hotel of the PGA. We were able to check in at 7:30 and ran into Paul Azinger loading his stuff onto his courtesy Mercedes. All the players have a brand new Mercedes to drive this week.

We got to the course around 8:00 and after walking around for an hour or so, we went to the 14th hole and found a great spot in the grandstand. We sat there for the entire field (7 1/2 hours) and watched every player. It is a 312 yard par 4 that every player except for 2 tried to drive the green. The highlights were Rich Beem sinking a sand shot for the only eagle of the day and Tiger chipping in to take the lead. If you were watching on TV, you might have seen us before Tiger hit his first chip.

It was another great day at the course.

When we got back to our hotel, we ran into Chad Campbell in our hallway. He is a room or two down. Other sightings include Vijay sitting in his car in the parking lot when in went out to pick up supper.

Back to reality tomorrow and the Senior Open on Monday.