How to Get on Any Golf Course – Even the Most Private
I have a recurring nightmare: Pulling up to the gate at Pine Valley and the guard who rations entry into that Perfect enclave looks up from his clipboard and says, “Sorry Mr. Sabino, no mas.” Which is why I thought about writing this article under a pseudonym to avoid being blacklisted at any more clubs. To […]
A Front Row Seat at the 1987 Masters
This is how Seve Ballesteros, Greg Norman, and I lost the 1987 Masters. About the only good thing that came out of it was that I did manage to overhear what is, to my way of thinking, the best one-liner ever uttered during the course of tournament play at Augusta National. That’s if you discount […]
A Different Day, Different Pin, Different Hole at Augusta National
The characteristics of Augusta National’s greens—large, contoured, quick—create very different holes when the pin is moved. The Masters distinguishes itself from other tournaments in so many ways, but one of the most fascinating is that competitors here aren’t playing the same 18 holes four times. Rather, they face 72 distinct challenges. There are obviously […]
Masters Champions Dinner A Unique Augusta Tradition
The Champions Dinner at the Masters has been an annual Tuesday night tradition since 1952 when Ben Hogan, the 1951 winner, suggested and hosted the first dinner. Since then the winner from the previous year will host, and select the menu, for the the most exclusive dinner in all of golf. There is, after all, only […]
Masters via Helicopter, Staying at Champions Retreat
Have your Masters Tournaments badges, but still need a place to stay in Augusta? How about a helicopter from a nearby city? And for accommodation, a 5-star golf club. Champions Retreat, a club in Augusta, Ga. has partnered with EvoLux, a helicopter ride-share company, to bring in groups via air from Atlanta, Charlotte, and Greenville, […]
Links Living: Champions Retreat
The “Big Three” united for a unique collaboration just down the road from Augusta National It was at the 1999 Masters that Gary Player recruited Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer to collaborate on Champions Retreat, a private club just outside of Augusta, Ga. The story goes that while sitting in the Champions Locker Room at […]
The Lost MacKenzie Drawings of Augusta National
For 80 years, two sketches by Alister MacKenzie were locked in a vault. LINKS is showing them to the public for the first time
Last House Standing on the Masters Parking Lot
Augusta National wants it, but this house isn’t for sale.
George Peper’s Top 10 Reasons to Love the Masters
Most of us would consider our golfing lives complete if we got to attend one Masters, but what if you were able to attend the Masters year after year as our illustrious editor George Peper has? Surely, you would develop a deeper appreciation and love of the event as he has. “A tradition unlike any other” […]
You Can Own the Augusta “Members Only” Sign
You may never get an invite to join Augusta National, but you can own the ‘members only’ sign that once hung in front
