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The Charles Schwab Challenge: A Nice Snapshot Of Fort Worth Elitism
In about two months, I’ll have lived in Fort Worth for nine years, which is crazy to even type. I like it and I’ve met good people here, and had some good experiences and some bad ones, but ending up in a random, albeit fast-growing, North Texas city was never something I predicted. Life is weird.
When I moved here, I initially lived over a pedestrian footbridge from the Colonial Country Club. I moved in July ’14, so I missed the 2014 Colonial PGA event, which I think at the time was called “Colonial” and that’s it. In 2015, I “experienced” it for the first time and a lot of people seemed to make it a big deal, including one guy at a bar telling me it was how “Fort Worth showed itself to the world.” I had already just learned that TCU football was a big thing, as was the rodeo. It seemed this place had a lot of things to “show to the world.” During that 2015 PGA tournament, though, CBS did a nice rapid-pan past my apartment balcony. I thought that was cool, and used it as an opportunity to tell random people that I used to work for ESPN and all that.
In the last seven-eight years, I’ve been to Colonial Golf Tournament, now called the Charles Schwab Challenge, maybe 3–4 times. Last year I walked around one day and…
