Go one step further and reserve a tee time or a spot in a photography class, instead.
Jim Furyk was ingloriously disqualified from the first playoff event for oversleeping and missing his pro-am tee time.
McIlroy also explains the Ryder Cup drama when he almost missed his tee time for the match with America's Keegan Bradley.
He went out to the practice green and leaned on his bag in the minutes before his tee time, mostly watching Woods chip and putt.
But this would be the full, daunting ritual: a tee time, a caddie, the 5, 800-yard masterpiece (from the reds), the postround drink on the porch.
When I expressed surprise and disappointment, the pro shop staff clearly did not care and begrudgingly booked me into a mid-afternoon tee time, screwing up my day.
It was the equivalent of showing up for a tee time at Augusta National when the extent of your golf experience was a few rounds of putt-putt.
Jim Furyk overslept and missed his pro-am tee time at last year's Barclays and was disqualified from the actual tournament (the PGA Tour has since modified the rule).
One final thought: One thing that tour operators can do that is tricky on your own is sell you a guaranteed tee time on the Old Course at St.
When I left for my afternoon tee time, I again inquired about how to best get to the golf club, and was again told to take the walk down the driveway to the bus.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) The longest, strangest day at the Masters for Tiger Woods began with a text message from his agent Saturday morning to meet with Augusta National officials nearly six hours before his tee time.
When I got to the golf course for my morning tee time, I was told that the twosome I was scheduled to play with had met another twosome in the casino the night before, and they wanted to play together, so my name had been scratched from the tee sheet.
Smith was lucky to complete the tournament after getting his tee-time wrong for the opening round on Thursday.
Mets 3B David Wright took swings off a tee for the first time since being diagnosed with a strained intercostal muscle.
Schwartzel, who averages around 300 yards a time off the tee over the past three years according to the Reuters Stats, throttled back a little on the tight, parkland track which borders the famous Kruger National Park in South Africa.
The fast, baked fairways in Hong Kong enabled Jimenez - generally a 280-yard-a-time striker off the tee - to improve his driving distance stats considerably too with an overall tournament return of 304.9 yards on average.
Yankees OF Curtis Granderson (broken right forearm) hit off a tee and soft toss throws for the first time at the team's complex in nearby Tampa.
Leading by two shots on the 15th, Lewis hit her tee shot into the water for the second time this week and slammed her club into the turf.
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