Entry-level employees rarely get invited, the last clubs we touched were at the Putt-Putt course and we may not know a lot about the game.
It was the equivalent of showing up for a tee time at Augusta National when the extent of your golf experience was a few rounds of putt-putt.
Even the businesses lining the perimeter are the same: Panther City Firearms, the old Putt-Putt course, a New Orleans-themed strip club and the Ace check-cashing emporium directly behind the 17th tee.
"We can play putt-putt while discussing biotechnology, " Gates says.
Check in: Yes, kids love the pool, the giant chess game, even the putt-putt golf green, but lush landscaping, a location to die for (the motel is maybe 10 steps from the beach), and 54 large guest suites with low-key nautical decor and mini kitchens make the grown-ups giddy too.
Cink returned from the delay by making a 5-foot par putt, an 18-foot birdie putt and a 10-foot par save on the 17th to get within two shots of the lead.
But that was neat for me to make a putt -- that's probably the first putt I've ever made to win.
That gave Londoner Wall a chance to tie for second and he did it in dramatic fashion with a 35-foot birdie putt - one which qualifies him for the Open at Hoylake in two weeks' time.
But there are some moments of magic, such as when -- as a 26 handicapper -- he sank a monster 150-foot putt at the Dunhill Links pro-am in Scotland last October.
The highlight of Mickelson's round was a 21-foot eagle putt at the par-five fifth hole.
Donald missed a five-foot birdie putt and Howell three-putted from 20ft after lining up an eagle opportunity.
He made a 17-foot birdie putt at the 221-yard second hole, and was 7 under his final eight holes with an eagle-birdie-birdie finish.
Lingmerth finished a wild day with an 8-foot eagle putt on the par-5 16th and a 10-foot birdie on the island-green 17th to reach 12-under par when the third round was suspended because of darkness.
Byrd's round was his best of the year, and he capped it off with a string of birdies that began with a 25-foot birdie putt on the par-three sixth green and ended with a wedge to six feet of the pin on eight.
Kuchar had to make a 5-foot par putt to keep the two-shot margin, and Chappell kept coming at him.
Webb, who got back into contention with a 69 in the second round, made her move early, rolling in a 25-foot birdie putt on the difficult 420-yard second hole that might have been the toughest on the course with the wind blowing into the players' faces off Reed's Bay.
Thomas Bjorn was left kicking himself after missing from five feet on the 18th - a putt which would have put him in the play-off too.
Winged Foot was designed by A.W. Tillinghast in 1923 and hosted its first U.S. Open six years later, when amateur Bobby Jones delivered one of the biggest shots in championship history with a 12-foot putt on the final hole to force a 36-hole playoff.
That included 28 single-putt greens on his way to rounds of 69, 65, 70 and 66.
But finding this green in two does not give you a two-putt sinecure for par.
Thompson accepted his bogeys and finished with a two-putt birdie on the 18th for a 70.
But an inexplicable four-putt from four feet on the 13th saw him plummet down the leaderboard.
Instead of hitting his third shot from the tee, he could reach the green for a two-putt par.
They are excellent putters as McIlroy had only one three-putt all weekend, that coming on the 71st hole.
Woods, despite his win at Bay Hill two weeks ago, ranks a miserable 134th on Tour in three-putt avoidance.
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From a fairway bunker, Woods hit 8-iron from 178 yards to the middle of the green for a two-putt birdie.
The burly 22-year-old Lowry led by two shots playing the last but he had a three-putt bogey while Rock birdied.
Kerr's sidehill chip left her a long two-putt, and Pettersen's birdie created a two-shot swing and put her in front at -11.
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