Word: augusta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the sepulchral pines of Augusta and the select high priests of the game who grace the field, it's not surprising that the Masters is viewed with an almost religious reverence by the golfing world. The tournament has evolved into as integral a part of spring as the vernal effluorescense of woodbine and spanish dagger that line the fairways of Augusta National...
...Augusta National was the brainchild of the late Bobby Jones, and the Masters pays homage to his memory...
...Andrews that Bobby Jones first met the Scotchman Alister Mackenzie, whom he later hired to design the Augusta National. Mackenzie was an outstanding British golf course architect who designed Cypress Point and shared Jones's views on the game...
...entered his field, but it is known that he developed an unerring eye for golf course topography while serving as surgeon to a British brigade during the Boer War. It seems that Mackenzie was astounded by the Boers' use of camouflage to consistently surprise the attacking British. Before building Augusta, he had founded in Hyde Park the first school to teach the art of camouflage, and provided a demonstration for King George...
...site Jones slected on which to build his ideal course was a 365-acre nursery in Augusta at the foot of an antebellum southern mansion. The acreage had first come to the attention of Clifford Roberts, who served as President of Augusta until this year...