Augusta National Golf Club pin flag Bobby Jones/Alister MacKenzie masters pga

Description

Augusta National Golf Club
, sometimes referred to as
Augusta
or
the National
, is one of the most famous and exclusive
[5]
golf clubs
in the world, located in
Augusta, Georgia
,
United States
. Unlike most private clubs which operate as non-profits,
[1]
Augusta National is a for-profit corporation, and it does not disclose its income, holdings, membership list, or ticket sales.
[5]
Founded by
Bobby Jones
and
Clifford Roberts
, the course was designed by Jones and
Alister MacKenzie
[3]
and opened for play in 1932.
[5]
Since 1934, the club has played host to the annual
Masters Tournament
, one of the
four major championships
in professional
golf
, and the only major played each year at the same course. It was the top-ranked course in
Golf Digest
'
s 2009 list of
America's
100 greatest courses
[6]
and was the number ten-ranked course based on course architecture on
Golfweek Magazine
'
s 2011 list of best classic courses in the United States.
[7]
The club long held racist and sexist policies: Augusta National admitted no
African Americans
as members until 1990
[8]
and no women as members until 2012. The club long required all
caddies
to be black
[9]
and barred black golfers from the Masters Tournament until
Lee Elder
participated in
1975
. In
1997
,
Tiger Woods
became the first person of color to win the tournament.
In 2019, the course began co-hosting the
Augusta National Women's Amateur
.