PGA Tour pro went on an ayahuasca retreat in Costa Rica during Masters week

Beau Hossler had a Masters week this year unlike any other for a non-competitor.

The 30-year-old veteran PGA Tour pro didn’t qualify for the major in April at Augusta National so he spent the week in Costa Rica tripping on the hallucinogenic drug ayahuasca during three evening ceremonies.

“April comes around this year, I’m just like not feeling myself. I don’t feel like me,” Hossler said last month to Matt Every of Pgatour.com. “I’m not playing good golf, but it’s not just that… something’s off, I’m just not feeling great.”

From a 49 handicap in coffee making to scratch 👀

After an ayahuasca trip, Beau Hossler found a passion outside of golf and turned that into his own business. pic.twitter.com/Ar5EOkSKlC

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Off to Costa Rica solo he went to try something new that his friends had experienced and recommended with a shaman and the whole nine yards.

“It's a very unique setting and community of people. And they bring a lot of energy that's different than what I've ever experienced,” he said this week on the Golf Subpar podcast.

Hossler said he drank two cups holding about three ounces of the concoction the first night and then one cup on subsequent nights. 

An hour passed by and Hossler said he didn’t feeling anything. “Which is normal,” he explained. “You develop like an inverse tolerance. So because of the receptors that it's binding to, which we don't turn on, we don't have anything in our lives that turns that on in what we do, you have to kind of wake those up. So you take a bit more the first time and then − but like for people that do it fairly often, they have to take very little because their receptors are basically more sensitive to it.

“Maybe you metabolize it in 20 minutes and someone else it takes an hour and a half. So after an hour, I went back and had another cup. And then I'm going to say it'd be like a half an hour after that, it like really began.”

Hossler called it a “full out of body experience.”

“You're completely unconscious, you have no control. And basically like your experience will present it to you, whether you like it or not,” he said. “And so for me, the first night, I just had a really amazing experience. I felt like I had these intentions of what I wanted to get out of it for months. And in an amazing way, they were all kind of addressed during my experience.”

To quote the Grateful Dead, what a long, strange trip it's been.

This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Beau Hossler on his Costa Rica ayahuasca adventure during Masters week