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Posted April 9, 2014, 7:38 pm |
From Staff Reports

Teen has to pass up Kevin Streelman's offer on practice round

 

For a couple of hours Wednesday, South Effingham High senior Harrison Staf­ford thought he was going to his first Masters.

He didn’t start the morning thinking that when he arrived at school in Guyton, Ga. Then PGA Tour player Kevin Streel­man put the word out on Twit­ter that he had two passes available to Wednes­day’s practice round because his parents were ill. Streel­man sought a junior golfer and a parent who had never been to Augusta Na­tion­al, and Stafford, 17, replied.

Streelman sent him a direct message, and a minute later, he was talking to Staf­ford by phone.

“It shows what a class act he is,” Stafford said. “That’s awesome.”

Stafford thought he could make the 2½-hour drive to Au­gusta by noon, but his mother decided the notice was too short, and her son stayed in school.

“It’s disappointing,” Staf­ford said. “I’d take that to go to the Masters.”

Stafford, who plays for the school golf team and has a scholarship to the Col­lege of Coastal Georgia in Bruns­wick, is now rooting for Streelman to win the Masters.

“That’d be awesome,” Staf­ford said.

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