It can only go downhill from here for Julia Westerman of WIS-TV, who will reportedly play her first-ever round of golf at Augusta National Golf Club on Monday. Per her own X account, Westerman won the media lottery that allows media members who cover the Masters to have a shot at the legendary course, and she will be facing a set of 18 holes that have confounded even the best in the world.
First round ever… at Augusta National!?
(via Robby Thomas on LinkedIn) pic.twitter.com/7EPJVJhCSO— GOLF.com (@GOLF_com) April 13, 2024
As if this month couldn’t get any crazier, I just won the media lottery to play a round at Augusta National on Monday.
— Julia Westerman (@JuliaWesterman) April 12, 2024
I am in disbelief
Augusta is notorious not only as one of the most challenging courses in the world to play but also one of the most difficult at which to get a tee time. There was plenty of seething jealousy bouncing around X from users envious of the chance to play the famed course. But a lottery is a lottery, and it doesn’t matter whether you’ve played 1,000 rounds of golf or one. Every credentialed media member gets the same chance to play the most famous track on the planet.
The WIS-10 reporter will certainly have a fun fact locked and loaded for any awkward team-building exercises in her future after this. Let’s hope she can string together that one memorable hole, the one every golfer has during their first round, that will bring her back to some not-as-nice golf courses in the future.