Sunday, April 14, 2013

Augusta Masters – Day Four

How many people attend the Masters? Only God knows. Organizers don't publish numbers and are very secretive about that. I've tried to find out, without much success. I've heard 45,000, and this has to be more.
 
Suffice to say that I'll never forget the huge lines at the (men) bathrooms, the lines at the food stand and their incredible organization to feed all these people. The local high-school kids are employed for the event and for $8 per hour will work on the food and shop facilities where organization has been fined tuned for so many years and that it is magnificently oiled up and optimized to handle perhaps the 100,000 that are actually there!

What's amazing is that there's no giant screen for the spectators to see the TV feed and that the scoreboards at each hole are manual and must be updated as the scores are reported. This is all about tradition and a definitely “must see” in one's lifetime!

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