Best beer bargain in golf
The Masters. The words prompt images of graceful fairways, immaculately cut greens, stunning magnolias, Butler Cabin and the overall beauty of Augusta National Golf Club.Amid this setting, where nearly 100 of the world’s best golfers compete every year, there’s a little-know benefit for the thousands of patrons, as they are called by the club. While they walk the grounds, they can buy beer for a price that’s more often found in rural Kansas than at a major golf championship.
A beer during the week of The Masters costs $2. True, fans likely have paid hundreds of dollars to buy a ticket to watch the tournament, but once inside, the beer price is so small that they’ll quickly forget the money shelled out to show up. Two-dollar beer is a throwback on par with ice-cream cones that cost a quarter, Milky Way bars that demanded only a dime and other relics of the American past. No doubt Padraig Harrington – who was penalized a stroke Friday because the wind moved his ball after he had addressed it – needed a $2 cup to salve his pain after that.
Regardless of who wins on the course this weekend, the beer-drinking fans will have won as well. Reality will return when they head home and go to their favorite Major League ballpark this month and gawk at beer prices three times as high.
