The National Augusta Golf Club , a club of private Golf located at Augusta, Georgia, the United States, is one of most famous and selects clubs of golfs of the world and is regarded as the masterpiece of Bobby Jones. One plays there each year the Masters.

Outline

Augusta is often regarded as the course preferred on the circuit by the American fans of golf. As Masters is held to with it each year, the televiewers have the possibility of familiarizing themselves with the course, which is not the case for the others major tournaments which are played each year on courses different under the terms of a principle from alternation.

The course is also famous for its beauty. As Masters is played at beginning of spring, the trees and the bushes which border the course are in full flowering at the time of the competition, which still adds to the particular seal which the place enjoys. Each hole of the course bears the name of the tree or the shrub with which it was associated.

Contrary to the majority of the other public or private courses of golf in the United States, Augusta National apparently never was object of a quotation. During Masters of 1990, a team of judges of USGA evaluated the difficulty of the course at the request of stores Golf Digest and gave him a quotation of 76,2 and one “slope” of 148.

Amen Corner

11th, 12th and 13th holes of the course were called the “Amen Corner” by the author Herbert Warren Wind in a article published in 1958 in Sports Illustrated. Seeking a name for a sector of the course where decisive facts had occurred this year there, it Amen took as a starting point the name of an old piece of jazz “Shouting At Corner” created by a group under the direction of Milton Mezzrow.

In 1958, Arnold Palmer managed to take the best on Ken Venturi to cover “Green Jacket” thanks to heroic rescues on Amen the Corner. Amen Corner was also the theater of other great moments of Masters such as the birdies for eagle carried out by Byron Nelson to the 12 and 13 in 1937, or the recovery of a ball in the water to the 12 which been worth with Sam Snead to gain the tournament in 1949.

Criticisms of the modifications made to the course

At a certain time, Augusta National could be regarded as one of both or three golfs more innovating of the American golf as regards architecture of course. The small number of bunkers and the width of its fairways offered a contrast striking with the majority of the penalizing drawings which one at the time met on the majority of the courses in vogue. Nevertheless, the changes brought by several architects of different courses, which include/understand the addition of new bunkers, the reduction of the size of the greens and the installation of trees and rough, moved away the course from the model which had inspired Bobby Jones and MacKenzie, namely St Andrews in Scotland.

Benchmarks

The Large Oak

The “large Oak” is on the course near the clubhouse and is old approximately 145 to 150 years. It was planted around 1850.

The tree of Eisenhower

It is about a pine located on the 17th hole, with approximately 190 meters of the starting hillock of Masters. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a member of the club, had sent his ball so often in the tree that at the assembly of the members of 1956, he had proposed that it is cut down. Eager not to grain the President of the United States, the president of the club, Clifford Roberts, the meeting had immediately and diplomatically deferred rather than to reject the request without another form of lawsuit.

Rae' S Creek

Rae' S Creek is a brook which curves in the South-eastern part of the field of Augusta National. It passes to the back green of the hole n° 11, in front of the green of the n° 12 and the departure of the n° 13.

Architectural characteristics

The nest of the corbels (Crow' S Nest)

It is about a building placed at the disposal of the amateurs who wish to obtain lodging during the tournament of Masters. Crow' S Nest makes it possible to lodge to five people. To reach it, the golfeurs must climb narrow stolen steps. When they go down again from there, they must take care not to enter on the left the Cloakroom of the Champions.

The Hut of Eisenhower (Eisenhower Cabin)

One of the ten huts located on the field of National Augusta, it was built by the association of the members of the club to the profit member Dwight D. Eisenhower after his election at the position of president of the United States. The hut was built according to the directives of safety of the Secret Service, which is in fact the agency in load of the protection and the safety of the President, and is decorated with an eagle located above the principal door.

The Circle of the Founders

A memorial located opposite the club house, at the end of the alley of the Magniolias. The commemorative plaques honor the memory with Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts.

The Hogan Bridge

A bridge thrown above Rae' S Creek makes it possible to pass from the fairway of hole 12 to its green. It is built out of stones and is covered with artificial grass. The bridge was dedicated to Ben Hogan in 1958 to earlier commemorate its score of 274 “strokes” on 72 holes five years, which constituted at the time the record of the tournament

The alley of the Magniolia

The principal access path which goes from Washington Road until the clubhouse of the course. The alley is bordered on the two sides of sixty and one magniolias, each one resulting from seeds planted by the Berckman family - original owner of the field where from now on the course is - in the years 1850. The alley 300 meters is long and was paved in 1947.

Nelson Bridge

A stone bridge on Rae' S Creek makes it possible to pass from the starting hillock of the hole n° 13 towards its alley. In 1958, it was dedicated to Byron Nelson in honor of its exploits at the time of Masters of 1937.

The Fountain of By Three

The fountain is located close to the first departure of the course By 3 (in fact a Pitch and Putt). The fountain carries a list of the winners of the contest from 3, which starts with my victory of Sam Snead in 1960.

The fountain of the records

The fountain of the records was built to commemorate the 25e birthday of Masters. Located on the left departure of the n° 17, it bears the records of the course and the names of the winners of the tournament of Masters.

The Sarazen bridge

It is a bridge which crosses the pond which separates the fairway from the 15 of sound green. Built out of stone, he recalls the memorable one (three blows under by) realized by Gene Sarazen on this hole during the tournament of 1935.

Presidents

• William To carry " Billy" Payne (2006 -)

• William " Hootie" Johnson (1998 - 2006)
• Jack Stephens (1991 - 1998)
• Hord Hardin (1980 - 1991)
• William Lane (1976 - 1980)
• Clifford Roberts (1934 - 1976)

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