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This is my first trip to Augusta, and I’m not going to try to bluff my way through it. I am intimidated. If I am going to a sporting event at, say, Yankee Stadium, or certainly the Meadowlands, I do not live in fear of embarrassing myself. I will not be the most outrageous or uncivil and not be the only one eating french fries in a XXL Ken O’Brien jersey. Or something like that. Those are my people.
Masters, different story. I will embarrassingly confess I spent a little time before this trip tooling around on Google, trying to figure out how I should dress. An XXL Ken O’Brien jersey would stay home, of course, but also the jeans, T-shirts, sweatshirts and anything that would make you look like you were at a non-Masters sporting event. Collared shirts were...
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