Call it one of the best mulligans ever.
After a case of mistaken identity resulted in him accidentally receiving an invitation to play in The Masters, 60-year-old real estate agent Scott Stallings received a real invitation to the golf tournament played at Augusta National, the final round of which is today, ABC News reported.
The trouble began on New Year’s Eve, when Scott Stallings, the real estate professional who lives in Chamblee, Georgia, received the invitation of PGA professional Scott Stallings — who is 37 and lives in Tennessee — to play in The Masters.
The PGA pro Stallings is one of the top 100 golfers in the world. The real estate professional Stallings is a casual golfer who knew the invitation wasn’t meant for him.
After exchanging messages on Instagram, the two men rectified the mixup and a grateful Scott Stallings the PGA pro received his invitation. In return, he made sure his namesake received tickets to the Masters, which the elder Stallings had been trying to score for years, the outlet reported.
General admission tickets to the event, which is the only one of the four majors to be played at the same golf course every year, are difficult to come by. They can either be obtained relatively inexpensively through a lottery system run by Augusta National or by paying up to thousands of dollars on the secondary ticket market.
When he finally made it to the pristine grounds of Augusta, where he naturally followed Stallings the professional golfer, Stallings the agent said he had reached nirvana, or at least something close to it.
“I feel like we have just entered the adult Walt Disney World,” Stallings, the real estate professional, told ABC News.
In addition Stallings the golfer — who made the cut but was low on the leaderboard as of Sunday morning — invited Stallings the real estate agent to dinner and presented him with a gift: an original invitation, framed, signed “from one Scott Stallings to another.”
— Ted Glanzer