Masters invitation goes to the mistaken Scott Stallings

Scott Stallings obtained an invite to the Masters, and the Georgia resident probably can be there — as a visitor of the PGA Tour participant by the identical title for whom the coveted invitation was meant.

Stallings, who certified for the Masters by reaching the Tour Championship final yr, didn’t understand what had occurred till the opposite Scott Stallings despatched him a sequence of messages on Instagram alerting him to the mail mix-up.

“Hi Scott. My name is Scott Stallings as well and I’m from GA. My wife’s name is Jennifer too!” the person wrote. “I received a FedEx today from the Masters inviting me to play in the Masters Tournament April 6-9, 2023. I’m (100 percent) sure this is NOT for me.”

Invitations have been despatched to eligible gamers the week earlier than Christmas, when membership chairman Fred Ridley introduced the factors could be unchanged from the earlier yr. Stallings stated he checked his mail day-after-day and started to marvel the place his was.

“Honestly, I thought my wife had it and was doing something for Christmas,” Stallings stated Monday on the Sentry Tournament of Champions. “But then nothing came, and we left two days after Christmas. I didn’t even think about.”

And then Instagram solved the thriller of the 2 Stallings, one in every of them from St. Simons Island, Georgia, the opposite a three-time PGA Tour winner from Knoxville, Tennessee, who’s going to the Masters for the third time.

“Just saw a picture of it from the other Scott Stallings, with his wife with the same name as mine,” Stallings stated with fun.

Stallings stated he beforehand had a sports activities administration firm that had an workplace in St. Simons Island. The different man’s condominium is subsequent to the workplace constructing, and Stallings can solely assume the supply particular person figured that’s the place the invitation belonged.

“The guy said, ’I saw my name and never considered it, but I opened it up and like, ’This is not for me,’” Stallings stated. “He sent me a bunch of messages saying, ‘This is not fake, I promise, I have it.’”

Stallings was runner-up within the BMW Championship throughout the FedEx Cup playoffs that enabled him to ending within the high 30 for the Tour Championship, which comes with a spot within the Masters.

Turns out the opposite Scott Stallings can plan on a visit to Augusta National, too.

“We’re going to give him some practice-round tickets and take him to dinner on Monday night for doing the right thing,” Stallings stated.