I frisked people at the Bethpage train station for 18 hours, on the Friday of the 2002 US Open, just so I could get tickets to see Tiger win on Sunday. It was great to see. I got to Bethpage at 6:30am and got a seat in the grandstand on the 18th green. From my seat there I could see over to the tee box on the first whole. I got to watch the entire field tee off, and then wait a little bit and watched everyone come through the last hole. It was great, but not even in the same universe of cool as your story.