{"id":582801,"date":"2026-04-14T02:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T02:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/582801\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T02:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T02:37:15","slug":"first-time-at-masters-surprising-things-what-its-like-at-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/582801\/","title":{"rendered":"First Time at Masters: Surprising Things, What It’s Like at Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buying branded merch at the Masters is no joke: It’s available only at the tournament and not online.<\/p>\n

To prepare and make a wish list, I watched lots of Masters merch hauls<\/a> before I left. The store is well-organized, but there are a lot of people frantically shopping around it \u2014 it’s wise to go in with a game plan.<\/p>\n

This year’s hottest item, the Masters gnome <\/a>($50), was already sold out when I got to shop at 8:15 a.m. on Friday, and so was the viral white pullover ($88) I’d seen across social media. <\/p>\n

Still, I found lots of great things, like socks, scarves, cups, and hats with the Masters logo.<\/p>\n

My husband and I had merch requests from 14 different people, so our bill was close to $2,500. Based on the huge hauls I witnessed, I imagine most patrons were buying for friends and family as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buying branded merch at the Masters is no joke: It’s available only at the tournament and not online.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[5021,28358,255298,926,40691,2310,681,427,183910,49552,255299,16907,99,16653,36310,2099,2394],"class_list":{"0":"post-582801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-application","9":"tag-augusta","10":"tag-decades-old-golf-event","11":"tag-dollar","12":"tag-first-time","13":"tag-friday","14":"tag-georgia","15":"tag-golf","16":"tag-lottery-system","17":"tag-masters","18":"tag-resale-site","19":"tag-round","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-thousand","22":"tag-ticket","23":"tag-tournament","24":"tag-year"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}