Augusta National Golf Club

Augusta National Golf Club

Coordinates  :  33.5°N 82.02°WCoordinates: 33.5°N 82.02°W

Location  :  Augusta, Georgia, U.S.

Elevation  :  160–310 feet (50–95 m)

Established  :  1933, 86 years ago

Type  :  Private

Total holes  :  18

Tournaments hosted  :  Masters Tournament(1934–present)

PGA Seniors' Championship 1937–38

Augusta National Women's Amateur 2019–present

Greens  :  Bentgrass

Fairways  :  Ryegrass

Website  :  masters.com

Designed by  :  Bobby Jones and Alister MacKenzie

Par  :  72

Length  :  7,768 yd (7,103 m)

Longest hole  :  13510 yds (470 m)

Course rating  :  78.1 

Slope rating  :  137 

Course record  :  63 - Nick Price (1986), Greg Norman (1996)

Augusta National Golf Club, located in Augusta, Georgia, is one of the most famous golf clubs in the world. Founded by Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts on the site of the former Fruitland (later Fruitlands) Nursery, the course was designed by Jones and Alister MacKenzie and opened for play in January 1933. Its first club professional was Ed Dudley, who served in the role until 1957; Dudley was one of the top tournament professionals of his era, with 15 wins on the PGA Tour. 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 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.

The club long-held racist and sexist policies: Augusta National had no African American members until 1990 and women until 2012. The club, which long required all caddies to be black, 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; Vijay Singh later became the second.

In 2019, the course began co-hosting the Augusta National Women's Amateur.

In 2018, Augusta National Golf Club was voted the number one Platinum Club of the World, Golf & Country Clubs by the election conducted by Club Leaders Forum.