Soon after mistaken invite to 2023 Masters, Atlanta real estate agent fulfills golfing dream

What’s in a title? If yours is Scott Stallings, it could include things like tickets to attend the Masters golf event in Augusta, Ga.

Scott Stallings is a authentic estate specialist who lives in Chamblee, Ga. He enjoys golf (and has been trying to get tickets to the Masters for years) but is by no indicates a PGA champion.

Scott Stallings is also the identify of a 38-yr-aged specialist golfer from Worcester, Massachusetts. He is one particular of the top rated 100 golfers in the planet, has received a few PGA Tour events and is competing at the Masters this weekend.

“It was likely about five or six yrs in the past when I truly saw him on Television set and realized, you know, wow, you will find a different dude that has my name, you know, participating in golfing,” Stallings, the real estate agent, informed ABC’s Atlanta affiliate WSB. “So every time I noticed him on Tv set, I might always choose a photograph of it and posted it on Fb.”

Last year, the real estate agent gained an invitation to the Masters in the mail originally meant for the professional golfer. Both of those received in touch right after the mixup, and to thank him for his aid, Stallings, the golfer, built sure that Stallings, the realtor, got some tickets for himself.

“Just the exhilaration of getting anything at all from Augusta Nationwide, and then, you know, kind of listening to the again and forth of him pondering that that was his ticket,” Stallings, the golfer, claimed. “It was a ticket, I guess, just a diverse variety.”

The real estate agent mentioned he has been trying to attend the Masters for in excess of a decade. The event, held at the non-public Augusta National Golf Club, is the holy grail of situations for golf fanatics even though tickets are notoriously difficult or pricey to get, the pristine landscaping, reasonably priced, iconic food items (pimento cheese sandwiches price tag $1.50, and Georgia peach ice cream sandwiches price $2.50), and elite play make the tournament legendary.

Of golf’s four main championships, the Masters is the only tournament to constantly be played at the exact same course, as opposed to a rotating established of expert classes in the United States and United Kingdom. Lucky supporters are ready to acquire somewhat inexpensive tickets through a lottery technique orchestrated by Augusta Nationwide fans left on the secondary current market fork out 1000’s of bucks for tickets.

“The road to the Masters is lengthy, fewer traveled, just a chain of events that you couldn’t produce this stuff if you attempted to,” Stallings, the realtor, stated.

The two united at the Augusta Countrywide this week, with the real estate agent viewing the golfer engage in.

“I experience like we have just entered the grownup Walt Disney Globe,” Stallings, the realtor, claimed.

In addition to the tickets to attend the event, the professional golfer invited the real estate agent to evening meal and gave him a present: the identical tickets that led to the fortuitous come across, framed and signed, “from 1 Scott Stallings to the up coming.”