Major blunder sees wrong person invited to Masters

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Scott Stallings received an invitation to the Masters, and the Georgia nonmigratory astir apt volition beryllium determination — arsenic a impermanent of the PGA Tour subordinate by the aforesaid sanction for whom the coveted invitation was intended.

Stallings, who qualified for the Masters by reaching the Tour Championship past year, didn't realise what had happened until the different Scott Stallings sent him a bid of messages connected Instagram alerting him to the message mix-up.

"Hi Scott. My sanction is Scott Stallings arsenic good and I'm from GA. My wife's sanction is Jennifer too!" the antheral wrote. "I received a FedEx contiguous from the Masters inviting maine to play successful the Masters Tournament April 6-9, 2023. I'm (100 per cent) definite this is NOT for me."

Invitations were sent to eligible players the week earlier Christmas, erstwhile nine president Fred Ridley announced the criteria would beryllium unchanged from the erstwhile year. Stallings said helium checked his message each time and began to wonderment wherever his was.

"Honestly, I thought my woman had it and was doing thing for Christmas," Stallings said astatine the Sentry Tournament of Champions. "But past thing came, and we near 2 days aft Christmas. I didn't adjacent deliberation about."

And past Instagram solved the enigma of the 2 Stallings, 1 of them from St Simons Island, Georgia, the different a three-time PGA Tour victor from Knoxville, Tennessee, who is going to the Masters for the 3rd time.

He inactive hasn't seen the existent invitation.

"Just saw a representation of it from the different Scott Stallings, with his woman with the aforesaid sanction arsenic mine," Stallings said with a laugh.

Stallings said helium antecedently had a sports absorption institution that had an bureau successful St Simons Island. The different man's condo is adjacent to the bureau building, and Stallings tin lone presume the transportation idiosyncratic figured that's wherever the invitation belonged.

"The feline said, 'I saw my sanction and ne'er considered it, but I opened it up and like, 'This is not for me,'" Stallings said. "He sent maine a clump of messages saying, 'This is not fake, I promise, I person it.'"

Stallings was runner-up successful the BMW Championship during the FedEx Cup playoffs that enabled him to finishing successful the apical 30 for the Tour Championship, which comes with a spot successful the Masters.

Turns retired the different Scott Stallings tin program connected a travel to Augusta National, too.

"We're going to springiness him immoderate practice-round tickets and instrumentality him to meal connected Monday nighttime for doing the close thing," Stallings said.

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