9 Things Augusta National Doesn't Want To Talk About (2024)

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After two rounds, the top 50 players and ties will qualify for the final 36 holes at Augusta National Golf Club. Starting in 2020, the tournament ended its 10-shot rule, in which players within 10 strokes of the 36-hole lead made the cut, regardless of position.

After two rounds, the top 50 players and ties will qualify for the final 36 holes at Augusta National Golf Club. Starting in 2020, the tournament ended its 10-shot rule, in which players within 10 strokes of the 36-hole lead made the cut, regardless of position.

The golf course where it's held annually held long racist and sexist policies. Augusta National admitted no African American members until 1990 and no women members until 2012. The club long required all caddies to be Black and banned Black golfers from the Masters Tournament until Lee Elder participated in 1975.

Legendary calls ignited the careers of Jim Nantz and Verne Lundquist, who will be calling his final Masters this year. Gary McCord was banned for angering Augusta National Golf Club, part of its tradition of being extremely particular about how it's presented.

Electronic watches, like Apple Watches, are allowed, but using them for calls, emails, texting, photos, videos or recording is not. You won't have your phone to snap a picture, but carrying a camera around your neck is a veteran move.

Collectively, they make up golf's most famous trio. More preciously, Amen Corner is the second shot of the par-4 11th hole, the entire par-3 12th hole and the first half of the par-5 13th hole. However, if you refer to Amen Corner as the 11th, 12th and 13th in their entirety, it's not like many people will correct you.

According to Wayne's brother, Marc, Wayne has been permanently banned from the Masters—despite the fact his dad is a three-time winner, nine-time major champ and a Masters honorary starter. The good news for Wayne? If he wants to hawk merchandise, he can always join John Daly in the Hooters parking lot down the street.

The Augusta National membership fees are relatively low for a club of its reputation. The initiation fee is estimated to be in the range of $40,000 - $200,000, but the official figure is unknown. And the yearly dues are assessed at “a few thousand” dollars annually, in the field of $7,000 to $10,000.

The winner gets not only the legendary jacket, but also honorary membership to Augusta and a lifetime invitation to play the Masters (yes, even if he plays for LIV Golf). He'll also take home a replica Masters trophy, a gold coin and, oh right, a cool couple million dollars.

Few famous names from the world of golf are Augusta National members. However Jack Nicklaus is, and Arnold Palmer was. Other Masters Champions are considered honorary members, and are awarded the club's famous Green Jacket at the prize giving.

Can Masters winners play Augusta anytime? ›

Not only do you receive a lifetime exemption into the tournament, you are welcomed into the club as an honorary member. That doesn't mean you're an 'official member', but basically if you win The Masters you can essentially play Augusta National any time you like for the rest of your life.

Each May, the course shuts down to reduce wear and tear during the hot summer months. The course's greens are bentgrass, a cool-season grass that requires extreme care in Georgia's hot and humid climate.

Golf commentator Mark Lye was fired from his post as a PGA Tour radio host after making negative comments about the WNBA. “The fact that I can't relate to WNBA does not make me sexist in any way,” Lye wrote on Twitter.

Ron Townsend, president of Gannett Television Group, has become the first black applicant accepted for membership in the prestigious Augusta National Golf Club, the golf club confirmed Tuesday. An announcement from Gannett said Townsend has direct responsibility for six of the company's television stations.

American golf broadcaster Gary McCord was removed from the line-up at Augusta National after he made a joke about the greens at the world-famous course as Jose Maria Olazabal was putting. “I don't think they mow these greens,” McCord said on the broadcast. “I think they bikini wax them.”

What is it? The 10-shot rule, also called the 10-stroke rule, is a rule that applies to who gets cut and who moves on to the next round and tournaments. When the 10-shot rule is in effect, it means that golfers who are within 10 strokes of the lead at the time the cut is made advance to the next round.

Tiger Woods has been awarded a lifetime exemption by the PGA Tour to enter all of its future signature events, beginning next year. The PGA Tour policy board has decided to establish an additional signature events sponsor exemption specifically to honor Woods' achievement of surpassing 80 career wins.

The fourth has just one ace ever. The sixth has had six holes-in-one. The most famous par 3 is the 12th, known as Golden Bell, and there have been just three aces there. The 16th hole has recorded the most aces of any hole at Augusta National with 24.

As you can imagine from an establishment of its calibre, sinking a hole-in-one at Augusta not only attracts a certain level of attention — it also opens a few otherwise difficult to unlock doors.