Kevin Van Valkenburg

The wealthiest part that people are extended to, members at Augusta, it's like a certain kind of classism that the club runs on, like kind of an old Southern sort of way.

And for whatever reason, Gary has never quite fit in with that kind of American aristocracy in some ways.

Maybe it's just a little bit too...

Loud, a little bit too brash.

I mean, for the most part, it's also like Augusta kind of ran on this idea that, hey, this is an American club.

This is a southern place.

And so I think the fact that he just wasn't an American, even though he has embraced the president of America at the hip and decided that he is...

you know, a Patriot in, in the strangest ways.

Sometimes he is a foreign born person and it's very hard for those for foreign born people to get into Augusta as a full members.

And, you know, every year Gary says something that reveals a little bit that, you know,

He's slightly annoyed about this, that he's never quite been embraced the same way that Arnie and Jack were.

And some of that kind of feeling slighted is what's driven Gary his entire life, his entire career, is the slights of...

you know, I should have been, you know, he's always quick to mention the big three.

And, you know, there's plenty of people who would be like, well, you know, Tom Watson's just as important character and he's not in the big three and all that stuff.

It's, it just sort of as a window into Gary's personality.

I think it's funny.

The whole contention of, well, how dare I not get a foursome?

I mean, he could play with a member and walk along and explain all the things to his grandsons without playing.

And he's played Augusta,

you know, a hundred some times he could get that.