Friday, February 10, 2012

HSBC Golf Tournament in Abu Dhabi

A couple weeks ago Ben and I attended the HSBC Golf Tournament here in Abu Dhabi. I wasn't really expecting too much. I figured we would see the players but never really go up close. I told Ben on Friday when we were heading out there, you know I don't think I will come tomorrow I have stuff to do. Well we had so much fun on Friday we did go back Saturday, especially since we wore red we got in for FREE! 

We got super close to the players. At one point Tiger and Mcilroy walked by me, I was so close I could have touched them! And then probably be escorted off the golf course so I kept my hands to myself. On another hole Mcilroy squatted down right in front of me while he was lining up his shot. I wanted to tell him to get out of my way so I could watch Tiger putt but thought that would be rude. 

On Friday we followed Tiger, Mcilroy, Donald and watched them on all 18 holes. There weren't too many people on Friday so like I said, we were close. But on Saturday there were a tone more people so we went to the holes where we knew we could get a good view and we could get ahead of the Tiger and Mcilroy crowd. On this par 3 hole we watched a couple groups. This guy name Rock almost got a hole in one and we noticed he wasn't wearing a hat, which was strange because although it's not super hot these days it is still very sunny. But he had Justin Bieber hair so we figured he didn't want to mess it up. We actually watched him a couple times and he ended the day tied for first with Tiger.

As you know we work on Sunday here (something I can't wait to get back when we move back to the states) so we couldn't go watch the final day. Although Ben and I both thought about it because we had so much fun the last two days. Rock, the guy with great hair, ended up winning! Which was pretty cool.

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