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chrisanctil

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I'm going to Whistling Straits for my first ever PGA event. I'm just wondering some basics of what to see and do through the week. (Where is the best place to sit/ should I follow a golfer, cool attractions, sights to see, can I go inside the clubhouse, basically anything you could tell someone who has never been. Thanks!

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I found its an exercise in total frustration trying to follow your favorite player, due to crowds of people walking so slowly, you can't keep up & watch them play shot to shot.  Players walk surprisingly fast from shot to shot ...

So, if I ever go to another event, I will pick a strategically good spot, perch & watch all of them come by ...

John

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In my experience, its not too bad to follow a lesser known player, but its nearly impossible to follow the popular guys and see anything.  One strategy could be to identify 2 or 3 interesting groups that are one after the other.  Plan to get to a grandstand well before they come through, and stay there for all of them, then move 5 or 6 holes forward and do it all again.  I'd also suggest you check out which grandstands give you a view of a couple of greens, rather than just one, or a green and the following tee.

Good luck!

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Make sure you have a good one liner to yell after anyone makes a shot. Like 'mashed potatoes' or 'Get in the hole'. This is not for your benefit but rather for the benefit of everyone here so that we will finally know which idiot is yelling that stuff. They ought to make a website or twitter account (#Here'sYourIdiot) to post pictures of those people. On second thought you can be the person (hero) taking the picture of the idiot yelling those things rather than being an idiot for our benefit.

Just once I want someone to yell "You're my boy Boo" to Weekly when he is in contention but makes an errant shot. At least then it would be someone trying to presumably keep up a players morale. Someone should just hire Will Ferrell to follow Boo around just waiting for such an opportunity to present itself so that he can be the one that yells it. Heck, Ferrell might do it for free if he got publicity from it. Of course Boo probably isn't in the field so I am just rambling.

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Make sure you have a good one liner to yell after anyone makes a shot. Like 'mashed potatoes' or 'Get in the hole'. This is not for your benefit but rather for the benefit of everyone here so that we will finally know which idiot is yelling that stuff. They ought to make a website or twitter account (#Here'sYourIdiot) to post pictures of those people. On second thought you can be the person (hero) taking the picture of the idiot yelling those things rather than being an idiot for our benefit.

LOL.

Yell "the sand trap dot com!"    That will make some here smile.

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