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10 hours ago, Party_Taco said:

So those of you who have been, how are you predominantly getting tickets? Mostly a corporate affair or are y’all hitting the lottery?

We’ve always gone via the lottery. I got my name pulled for 2018 & 2024. One of the guys I went with had an employee win and sell him the tickets for 2020 (those tickets ended up being used for 2022). And this year same guy had a friend that won but couldn’t use them. 

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8 hours ago, Party_Taco said:


What are we talking, ballpark?

We’ve had to buy a 5th ticket off stubhub 3 times. In 2022 a Monday ticket was ~$900. In 2024 a Wednesday ticket and in 2025 a Tuesday ticket were both around $1,500. Depending on when you buy that can be anywhere from 1k to 2k+. Add another 30% or so for stubhub fees. 

There is a pretty significant fluctuation in prices from July to April. Cheapest times seem to be in the few weeks after they draw the winners. For that first month or so if you check daily you can find some cheap as people that just want to move them fast will way undercut the market. Another slight dip in late fall. Prices typically rise slightly from new years until the week before the tournament. A week out the prices will be highly weather dependent. If there is a day that looks like a rain out the days around it will double+.

This past year immediately after uga got knocked out of the playoffs there was a quick $~500 jump in prices after uga fans moved their national championship funds to masters tickets. 

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^^^
Buying early entails some risk as the Masters doesn’t do digital ticketing so the transaction doesn’t complete until the physical pass is delivered, which isn’t available until a couple of weeks before the event. 

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7 hours ago, heso said:

We’ve always gone via the lottery. I got my name pulled for 2018 & 2024. One of the guys I went with had an employee win and sell him the tickets for 2020 (those tickets ended up being used for 2022). And this year same guy had a friend that won but couldn’t use them. 

Damn - I need a friend, who can't use them, to win; or the friend of a friend. Because the lottery is my annual disappointment unlike any other.

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Damn - I need a friend, who can't use them, to win; or the friend of a friend. Because the lottery is my annual disappointment unlike any other.

Just bite the bullet early after the lotto and go secondary. I have bought them twice for $1000. But when I played there I heard it was about $35 for my round. ;)
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On 4/15/2025 at 7:32 PM, Party_Taco said:

So those of you who have been, how are you predominantly getting tickets? Mostly a corporate affair or are y’all hitting the lottery?

 

went on vendors tickets 

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So.... What did he say that was wrong?

Mud balls suck. And it's taboo to criticize anything about Augusta as a golfer.  Both correct. He's expressing frustration, which he has done in the public eye literally his entire career. None of this is shocking. It is who he is and has been his entire career, majors or not. 

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5 hours ago, dieucla98 said:

So.... What did he say that was wrong?

Mud balls suck. And it's taboo to criticize anything about Augusta as a golfer.  Both correct. He's expressing frustration, which he has done in the public eye literally his entire career. None of this is shocking. It is who he is and has been his entire career, majors or not. 

He's bitching about the course instead of taking accountability for his game. 

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6 hours ago, dieucla98 said:

So.... What did he say that was wrong?

Mud balls suck. And it's taboo to criticize anything about Augusta as a golfer.  Both correct. He's expressing frustration, which he has done in the public eye literally his entire career. None of this is shocking. It is who he is and has been his entire career, majors or not. 

Imagine instead, if Rory had lost the playoff then complained about mud on his ball on 13, what the reaction would be.

These dudes are already some of the most pampered athletes on the planet--flying around on private jets to the best courses around the world, every technological advancement available to them--and he's publicly complaining that conditions and the course, the most famously well taken care of one on earth, were only 97% perfect, not 100%. Would it be better if they were allowed to pull a new Titleist right from the box for every shot? Golf isn't played in a vacuum; the elements are part of it. Guys who play in the morning sometimes get a different golf course than those in the afternoon. It is what it is.

I get it: with these guys' swing velocities and required accuracy, a little mud or morning dew on a ball can make a big difference. Too bad. Sometimes you hit a 350 yard drive right down the middle, and it lands in a divot. That's golf.

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I don’t think he’s complaining that mud balls happen or that they don’t get lift clean place, but rather that they simply are a significant factor on 11 and 13 yet they’re not supposed to talk about it.

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5 hours ago, aggie08 said:

Imagine instead, if Rory had lost the playoff then complained about mud on his ball on 13, what the reaction would be.

These dudes are already some of the most pampered athletes on the planet--flying around on private jets to the best courses around the world, every technological advancement available to them--and he's publicly complaining that conditions and the course, the most famously well taken care of one on earth, were only 97% perfect, not 100%. Would it be better if they were allowed to pull a new Titleist right from the box for every shot? Golf isn't played in a vacuum; the elements are part of it. Guys who play in the morning sometimes get a different golf course than those in the afternoon. It is what it is.

I get it: with these guys' swing velocities and required accuracy, a little mud or morning dew on a ball can make a big difference. Too bad. Sometimes you hit a 350 yard drive right down the middle, and it lands in a divot. That's golf.

Mud makes a HUGE difference. Even for amateurs. But that's not the point - he was frustrated he got two mud balls that tend to happen on two holes and he was voicing his frustration. End of story. I get it's fashionable to rag on his antics but this is a nothing burger. 

Let's not forget Rory stormed off after blowing the US open and most hailed that as being honest and human. And for the record, I don't really give two shits about that either. 

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2 hours ago, Lurch said:

I don’t think he’s complaining that mud balls happen or that they don’t get lift clean place, but rather that they simply are a significant factor on 11 and 13 yet they’re not supposed to talk about it.

I think he's complaining. What he's complaining about isn't really the point. 

20 minutes ago, dieucla98 said:

Let's not forget Rory stormed off after blowing the US open and most hailed that as being honest and human.

Rory just won the Players and the Masters. If Spieth was coming off a major win last season I wouldn't think twice about what he said there.

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On 4/17/2025 at 10:45 PM, ztejas said:

I think he's complaining. What he's complaining about isn't really the point. 

Rory just won the Players and the Masters. If Spieth was coming off a major win last season I wouldn't think twice about what he said there.

 

losers complain, winners give opinions 

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welp, guess i'm never going back. reseller was always my plan to get back in there .....

 

🚨🎟️ #CRACKING DOWN — According to a report from @FOS, ‘hundreds’ of ticket holders who attended this years Masters tournament were pulled aside + questioned by Augusta reps over the origin of their tickets, where they were purchased, etc with many passes cancelled for the week as the tournament cracked down on resellers

 

https://frontofficesports.com/the-masters-ticket-resellers-on-location/

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15 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

welp, guess i'm never going back. reseller was always my plan to get back in there .....

 

🚨🎟️ #CRACKING DOWN — According to a report from @FOS, ‘hundreds’ of ticket holders who attended this years Masters tournament were pulled aside + questioned by Augusta reps over the origin of their tickets, where they were purchased, etc with many passes cancelled for the week as the tournament cracked down on resellers

 

https://frontofficesports.com/the-masters-ticket-resellers-on-location/

Augusta could probably soften the reseller market themselves by devising a lottery system where you didn’t hear so many “I’ve entered for 20 years and never won alongside so many oh I’ve won them 3 times in the last decade” stories. 

Maybe give more “ping pong balls” the more years you have entered without winning or something like that  

Would it totally eliminate resale…of course not but it would probably bring the instances down  

 

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Because they want to make it affordable for real golf fans to be able to go, instead of encouraging every Tom, Dick and Harry to enter into themselves and their grandmother into the lottery as some sort of lottery ticket that doesn’t give a fuck about golf, just trying to making some money. It is Golf in its purest form, to be enjoyed by real fans. Cheap food, No phones, no running, no Bababooey or mashed potatoes, no talking when someone is hitting, they don’t even tell you to be quiet. You just better fucking do it. Massively overstaffed by happy people,  bathroom attendants, security guards that escort women thru crowds and put them on the rope so they can see. A beautiful course upon which everyone has the exact same chair that you can leave anywhere, and sit in anyone else’s chair until they return. A peach ice cream sandwich, pulled pork sandwich and a beer for $12. A massive shipping operation and bag check right next to the store. Lines that never stop moving. Every detail is accounted for. A place with manners and order and smiles and hello, friend,  where are you from and the conversation goes on from there.  Because that’s the way it should be. 

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Because they want to make it affordable for real golf fans to be able to go, instead of encouraging every Tom, Dick and Harry to enter into themselves and their grandmother into the lottery as some sort of lottery ticket that doesn’t give a fuck about golf, just trying to making some money. It is Golf in its purest form, to be enjoyed by real fans. Cheap food, No phones, no running, no Bababooey or mashed potatoes, no talking when someone is hitting, they don’t even tell you to be quiet. You just better fucking do it. Massively overstaffed by happy people,  bathroom attendants, security guards that escort women thru crowds and put them on the rope so they can see. A beautiful course upon which everyone has the exact same chair that you can leave anywhere, and sit in anyone else’s chair until they return. A peach ice cream sandwich, pulled pork sandwich and a beer for $12. A massive shipping operation and bag check right next to the store. Lines that never stop moving. Every detail is accounted for. A place with manners and order and smiles and hello, friend,  where are you from and the conversation goes on from there.  Because that’s the way it should be. 

Sure, but then as noted above THEY SHOULD FIX THE LOTTERY.

If “real fans” don’t stand a chance, many like myself will give the fuck up after a number of years and look for alternatives.

Punishing those that do so, instead of those to whom the tickets were originally issued, is not the ideal approach IMO.
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1 hour ago, Party_Taco said:


Sure, but then as noted above THEY SHOULD FIX THE LOTTERY.

If “real fans” don’t stand a chance, many like myself will give the fuck up after a number of years and look for alternatives.

Punishing those that do so, instead of those to whom the tickets were originally issued, is not the ideal approach IMO.

Exactly. Also, they should make it a 2 ticket max for the practice round days like they do the tournament days. That way they’d have more people getting to experience it. 

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27 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

Exactly. Also, they should make it a 2 ticket max for the practice round days like they do the tournament days. That way they’d have more people getting to experience it. 

You might want to think that statement through a little bit. 

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Based on that article, I think what they’re doing is identifying weekly badges that get resold every year so they can pull them for use as part of the high end map and flag hospitality packages. 

Why let some asshole pocket $20k reselling his weekly badge when they can use that weekly badge for high end packages and get that $20k into their environment. 

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