My original plan was to attend the BMW Championship for the third round on Saturday. However, my plans changed when the Ultimate Sports Wife was selected to be an honorary coach at the Northwestern football game vs. Illinois St. on Saturday. With the Bears home on Sunday, I would have to attend the golf tournament on either Thursday or Friday afternoon. After looking at my meeting schedule at work, Thursday was the day to go.
This was my third trip to the PGA tournament at Cog …

My day started on Friday at 7 am when the alarm sounded. My parents picked me up at 7:30 am and we were off for the 2.5 hour drive to Ponte Vedra Beach, FL (a suburb of Jacksonville) – a journey that took 4 hours once you included picking up our tickets, parking and taking the shuttle to the course in traffic.
We picked up the tickets I bought from eBay with no problems and continued to the free parking lot at University of North Florida. The other options to park …

Last night I bought 3 tickets to the Players Championship for this Friday off eBay for $40 each (face value is $75). As usual, I checked the prices on StubHub, TicketsNow and craigslist to determine the market price for grounds tickets. It seemed most people were looking for $55-65 per ticket.
Since I am going with my parents I decided to buy tickets ahead of time rather than on site. Now I need to pick up the tickets on the day of the event.