Going way back I attended THE OPEN Championship in 1995 at The Royal & Ancient Club of St. Andrews where John Daly took home the prize. I attended again in 1997 with my son Patrick and then law partner and watched Justin Leornard, a Texan take the most coveted prize. Do not get me wrong, I am a big fan of the Master’s Golf Tournament right here in our own neighborhood as well as the US Open and the PGA, but like Buc-ee’s there is something about it that you just have to go and experience it in person. I love golf – PGA and LIV, DP World Tour, and a thirty Handicap like me playing at home with my own club at WildeWood in Northeast Columbia, but I repeat THE OPEN is mystically special and I will be watching every moment of it I can get up for this weekend. For a mediocre golfer at best, I don’t know why I love it so much, but I do. Hmmm…maybe I should have taken up bowling.

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