Alabama native GordonSargent5 is preparing for his TheMasters debut at Augusta National Golf Club — on a rare special invitation for an amateur. 🏌️♂️ But he's been having just a little bit of trouble getting security to believe he's really a player. 😆
Roy McIlroy talks with Gordon Sargent after they played their second shots on the ninth hole during a practice round for the Masters on Tuesday, April 4, 2023, at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga.Less than two years after winning the Alabama High School Athletic Association Class 6A boys’ golf individual championship playing for Mountain Brook High School at Magnolia Grove Golf Course in Mobile, Gordon Sargent is preparing for his Masters debut at Augusta National Golf Club.
” by security guards wondering if he was really a tournament player and others mistaking him for a participant in the Drive, Chip and Putt event, a competition for youngsters 7 through 15 years old that held its national finals at Augusta National on Sunday., who had left his badge in the car. “I’m like, ‘Look, I’m a player. I have my caddie right here.’ The guy’s like, ‘No, you’re going to have to have your badge.’ So I’m like, ‘OK, whatever.
“One of the waiters there, he waited on me last time I was there a couple of weeks ago, so he remembered me. But then I think they were like, ‘Where’re the kid’s parents? Did they just send him by himself for the Drive, Chip and Putt?’ The waiter was giving me a hard time about it. I talked to him after, and he was like, ‘How’d the Drive, Chip and Putt go?’
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