{"id":279798,"date":"2025-04-11T17:20:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T17:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/masters-invitation-goes-to-the-wrong-scott-stallings\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T17:20:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T17:20:20","slug":"masters-invitation-goes-to-the-wrong-scott-stallings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/masters-invitation-goes-to-the-wrong-scott-stallings\/","title":{"rendered":"Masters invitation goes to the wrong Scott Stallings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Scott Stallings received an invitation to the Masters, and the Georgia resident most likely will be there \u2014 as a guest of the PGA Tour player by the same name for whom the coveted invitation was intended.<\/p>\n

Stallings, who qualified for the Masters by reaching the Tour Championship last year, didn\u2019t realize what had happened until the other Scott Stallings sent him a series of messages on Instagram alerting him to the mail mix-up.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHi Scott. My name is Scott Stallings as well and I\u2019m from GA. My wife\u2019s name is Jennifer too!\u201d the man wrote. \u201cI received a FedEx today from the Masters inviting me to play in the Masters Tournament April 6-9, 2023. I\u2019m (100 percent) sure this is NOT for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Invitations were sent to eligible players the week before Christmas<\/a>, when club chairman Fred Ridley announced the criteria would be unchanged from the previous year. Stallings said he checked his mail every day and began to wonder where his was.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, I thought my wife had it and was doing something for Christmas,\u201d Stallings said Monday at the Sentry Tournament of Champions. \u201cBut then nothing came, and we left two days after Christmas. I didn\u2019t even think about.\u201d<\/p>\n

And then Instagram solved the mystery of the two Stallings, one of them from St. Simons Island, Georgia, the other a three-time PGA Tour winner from Knoxville, Tennessee, who is going to the Masters for the third time.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust saw a picture of it from the other Scott Stallings, with his wife with the same name as mine,\u201d Stallings said with a laugh.<\/p>\n

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Stallings said he previously had a sports management company that had an office in St. Simons Island. The other man\u2019s condo is next to the office building, and Stallings can only assume the delivery person figured that\u2019s where the invitation belonged.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe guy said, \u2019I saw my name and never considered it, but I opened it up and like, \u2019This is not for me,\u2019\u201d Stallings said. \u201cHe sent me a bunch of messages saying, \u2018This is not fake, I promise, I have it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Stallings was runner-up in the BMW Championship during the FedEx Cup playoffs that enabled him to finishing in the top 30 for the Tour Championship, which comes with a spot in the Masters.<\/p>\n

Turns out the other Scott Stallings can plan on a trip to Augusta National, too.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re going to give him some practice-round tickets and take him to dinner on Monday night for doing the right thing,\u201d Stallings said.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n