Augusta has to be one of my favourite courses of all time, it hosts the second biggest Major of the year ‘The Masters’. Every year when it comes around you can feel the excitement growing around all golf fans as it’s the sign that spring is here and the golf season is a about to get underway again!
Augusta is the most picturesque golf course in the world with its amazing array of flowers and shrubs. Augusta is known best for it’s fast and sloping greens which can make the best players in the world look foolish at times, and it’s usually the person that handles the greens the best that goes on to win.
The course has had to be extended over the years to cope with the advances of technology as it was playing a little bit to easy at one stage, but its back to its toughest again now stretching over 7,400 yards. The course has 10 par 4’s, 4 par 3’s and 4 par 5’s.
Past Winners include: Jack Nicklaus, Seve Ballesteros, Nick Faldo, Tiger Woods,and Phil Mickleson.
Nick Price and Greg Norman share the course record which stands at 63.
The mystery of how Bobby Jones and course designer Alister MacKenzie first met — and how Jones arrived at picking MacKenzie to design Augusta National Golf Club — has never been fully explained.
The golfer and architect created their masterpiece in the early 1930s, and it is the center of attention each spring as the home of the Masters Tournament.
