Monday, April 15, 2013

History of the Masters Golf Tournament

Missing the Masters Golf Tournament already?

Now that the 2013 Masters Golf Tournament is history, check out these books on Masters history, which we currently have in stock (click on title for store listing and more photos):


Augusta National, Inc., 2001

296 pages, illustrated with photos. Contents divided by with tabbed dividers: Founding, GOLF COURSE, MASTERS TOURNAMENT, STRUCTURES, LANDMARKS, RECORDS and STATISTICS AND MASTERS RESULTS (year by year results). 

This media guide is notable for the year Tiger Woods won the tournament for his fourth consecutive major tournament championship. Had he done it in the same calendar year, Woods would have become only the second player to ever win golf's Grand Slam. However, his victory string started in the previous calendar year and his version of the Grand Slam became known as the Tiger Slam.


Augusta National and the Masters : A Photographer's Scrapbook 
by Frank Christian, with Cal Brown

Sleeping Bear Press, 1996

207 pages of photos documenting the history of the Master Golf Tournament.












Masters: The First Forty One Years
by Clifford Roberts
Augusta National Golf Club, 1978

Green leatherette with gilt lettering and stamping. 128 pages, illustrated with numerous color and black and white photos. Endpaper illustrations of the course; the front endpaper depicts the general plan of Augusta National Golf Club with a map of the first course. The book is a tribute to co-founders Robert Tyre Jones, Jr. and Clifford Roberts. Roberts would write a summary after each tournament for historical record and those writings are recorded here in this book in their original form. 

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