Watching A Live Golf Tournament (Part 3): How To Pick The Best Spot
Watching A Live Golf Tournament (Part 3): How To Pick The Best Spot
are you getting ready to attend your very first live professional golf game? Unlike other sports events where you just sit in one spot watching the game, viewing a professional golf tournament in the flesh is quite different.
Where Is The First Place You Should Go?
As soon as you arrive at the course, the first place you should go is right to the practice tee. So long as you have showed up early to the game you will have the fortunate experience of watching your favorite golf players warming up for the day. Take a look very carefully and you can learn an enormous amount of golf tips just from watching them.
Watch how these men and women warm up. Make mental notes because this is the correct way to prepare your own daily game of golf. You can practice the same warm up habits before your own rounds on the course.
Notice carefully how the pros do not ferociously hit every ball as far as possible into the range. Instead, they will spend much more practice time using their wedge and middle iron shots. They only hit long-iron shots long enough to make sure that there is no glaring issues.
Etiquette Tip: Never bother the professionals when they are warming up and practicing. There is no excuse for this behavior no matter how excited you are or how much of a fan you deem yourself to be.
This practice time is crucial and these guys do not like interruptions. Remember, this is their job and winning is their goal. There will be plenty of time for autographs and photo shoots before or after a practice session, or other times during the game.
Pick Your Spot
Now it is time to stake out a location where you can watch the tournament. The only downside here is that a live golf game covers a ton of ground space, literally. Unfortunately, you cannot be everywhere at once so you will need to selectively choose an area in which you can watch the game from.
Some golf fans like to pick an area around the 10th or 11th tee, for example, so that they can catch a glimpse of every player that passes by. Other fans would rather select a spot where they can see multiple holes being played at once. If you do choose to camp out like this then be sure to bring along a chair so you can rest comfortably.
Game Viewing Tip: Many golf fans who go to their first live tournament have a tendency to follow every player they can throughout each hole. There is nothing wrong with this plan but I will tell you that it is extremely tiring and worse yet, you will have to wade through hundreds or thousands of other fans as you move through the course.
With so many bodies and heads moving and trying to see the action, it’s quite possible that you may miss out on the good stuff. Try to set up your viewing strategy so that you can catch as much of the game is possible.