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Old 03-21-2015, 08:20 AM
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Originally Posted by justjim View Post
We made our annual trip to Bay Hill (Arnold Palmer's Invitational Golf Tournment) yesterday and continue to see more and more Corporate Stands for spectators and less and less for the rest of us. A sign of the times.....Irritating as you see these corporate only stands only half full.

Although inconvenient, we will take our own chairs next time----you can't carry your chairs into the Tournment in their bags---security reasons they say!
Did it always used to be this way? If not, where did the $ come from to fund the tournament in the past?
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