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Only one: The 2014 Senior PGA Championship in Benton Harbor, Michigan. I picked up tickets for my dad for Father's Day, and found out he was a huge Bernhard Langer fan back in the day, so it was cool for him to see guys like Langer, Mongomerie, and the rest of the crew he used to watch on Sundays while taking a nap.

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Open Championship at Royal Lytham, Muirfield, Royal Troon, Royal Birkdale, St Andrews, Carnoustie, Royal Liverpool and Turnberry.

British Masters at Close House and Hillside.

Scottish Open at Renaissance, Gullane, Dundonald and Loch Lomond.

Seniors and other tour events including Slaley Hall.

Open Final Qualifier at Barrasie, Western and Glasgow Gailes and S&A..

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A dozen AT&T tournaments at Pebble-Spyglass,

3 US Open's at Pebble,

3 US Open's at Olympic Club,

Tour Championship at Olympic

WGC at Harding Park

Schwab Senior Tour Championship at Harding

President's Cup at Harding

San Diego Open at Torrey Pines

LA Open at Riviera

 

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US Open 1995 Shinnecock

The Masters 1996

Many many Canadian Open's ... must be 12-15 times .. from say 1981 until recently

The Andalucia Masters event at Valderrama that Sergio won .. 2018

A Nationwide event - Gretzky's - where I played the first two days as an Am

I'd love to attend a PGA Championship and The Open to knock off all 4 majors

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The Open at Royal St Georges

The Masters

The Byron Nelson

The ladies Canadian Open

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I've attended the following (winners in parentheses):

1998 PGA Championship (Vijay Singh)

2002 WGC NEC Invitational (Craig Parry)

2009 Masters (Angel Cabrera)

2014 Boeing Classic (Senior Tour - Scott Dunlap)

2010 US Amateur (Peter Uhlien)

2017 Sahalee Players Championship (Sahith Theegala)

The last two were significant amateur events. The Sahalee Players Championship was entertaining. A buddy and I walked the last nine holes with the final group. There were no gallery ropes except around the tees, and we walked along in the fairway and talked to Mr. Theegala for several of the last holes. Try that at a professional event!

 

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Many Kemper Opens - at both Congeessional & TPC Avenal back in the 80's-90s.

US Opens at Congo in '97 & 2011

US Sr Open @ Saucon Valley in '92

 

Upcoming...will be in SD end of March and see 1 round of Kia Classic.

Already have tickets to Wed practice & Thurs at Winged Foot

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Buick Open (Multiple)

1996 US open practice round

2008 PGA Practice round

2017 Waste Management Saturday

2019 Masters Monday practice round

2019 Rocket Mortgage Classic practice round

Obviously, The Masters stands in its own category. Waste Management is a party that happens to have a PGA even occurring on the same site. The other 4 felt similar, even though 2 were majors. All very cool, and seeing the skill in person is so impressive.

 

 

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1968-1976 American Golf Classic

1975 PGA Championship

1970-1992, 1995-2007, 2010-2014, 2010-2018 World Series/NEC/Bridgestone WGC

All at Firestone CC. Attended sporadically last 20 years, mostly there.

Highlights many, too many to list. Watching Lee Elder lose in a playoff to Jack at the AGC in '68. Walking the fairway with my dad, George Knudson during a practice round for the AGC. Meeting Arnold Palmer on the veranda with my dad during World Series of Golf (I gave him the wrong scores, lol. My Dad and I got a good laugh out of that when we realized it later). And my Akron Children's Hero son participating in the last Bridgestone TV promo and Arnie's March in 2018. Family Grand Finale to PGA tour golf there.

Grew up playing there too. What a great run of fond memories.

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1996 Memorial and PGA

1998 (I think) Brickyard on the Senior Tour

probably 15 Phoenix Opens and 5ish Senior Tour Championships/Schwab Cups since 2001 to present

The Phoenix Opens vary in enjoyment for me, I’ll only go now for customer engagements with valet lot parking and clubhouse or tent passes. General Admission is a zoo and you have to really be ahead in order to actually see any golf. Thursday and Sunday are my favorite days to go.

 

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The Memorial many times.

PGA Championship at Valhalla.

Ryder Cup at Valhalla.

Presidents Cup at Murfield.

2018 Memorial:

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The Masters (probably 12 times at least)

US Open (5 times; Oakmont twice, Olympic, Pebble Beach, Congressional)

PGA (Bellerive)

The Players (A lot)

Arnold Palmer Invitational (A lot)

Honda Classic (A lot)

WGCs (Firestone x5 or 6; Memphis x1)

Buick Open/Classic/Invitational (Torrey Pines twice, Westchester once, Warwick Hills(?) once).

Playoff event at Cherry Hills

Ryder Cup (Medinah)

Hopefully get some European events next year when we move.

Best one of those is The Masters. To me there’s no better experience. I’m the old man, you know get off my lawn, and at Augusta everyone is respectful, dressed appropriately, behaves as one should at a golf tournament. It’s a pleasant week for sure.

I have CGCS from GCSAA typically gets you into events free, plus I know/worked/schooled with a lot of those guys running the courses and wasn’t afraid to volunteer if needed.

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2017 bmw championship at Conway farms

2019 genesis at riviera

2019 us open at pebble

2019 lpga event at Wilshire cc

 

My parents have gone to

2019 lpga mediheal at lake Merced in SF

2016 and 2017 Safeway open

 

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I went to two IVB Classics (Outside Philadelphia) in the early seventies. Followed Jack, Billy Casper and Dave Marr. Met Chuck Bednarik in the gallery. He was a member at the course.

Went to a couple of Westchester Classics in the mid eighties. Mostly practice rounds. That was a good tournament because it was a week before the US Open and as the greens there were really fast, a lot of top players participated.

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I forgot to mention the Canadian Skins game .. 2 X

Fun to see Nicklaus and Freddie play together ... and to see what a pompous d-bag Ray Floyd was in person

Looked it up .. 1993 ... I am old

Nick Price was the 4th FWIW, talk about crisp iron shots

I can still recall some shots that day. How much extra club Fred took at times and feathered shots in there. How high Floyd hit it

Nicklaus stretching and warming up, chunking his first SW on the range about 6 feet. He was a good sport about it

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