The first golf of every opening day at Masters is ceremonial with a gesture toward history. In April 1998, Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, and Gene Sarazen each hit honorary drives off of number one. It was 76 years since Sarazen had won his first major golf tournament, the U.S. Open, at age 20. We each will wear one on Sunday, along with Tiger. Red is considered a power color in Thailand, Tiger's mother's native land where he is now an honorary citizen and twice-winner of the Thailand Open.
Tiger wears red on the last day of every tournament.
His inner circle of fans does the same. I assumed it would be somewhere in the hundreds. Actually the number was closer to 10. Tiger's mother, Kultida, led us much of the way. On Sunday, we literally created a thin red line that Tiger could see at a glance among the thousands who followed him.