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Augusta Historical Museum

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Augusta Historical Museum
Augusta Historical Museum
Augusta Historical Museum
Augusta Historical Museum
Augusta Historical Museum
Augusta Historical Museum
Augusta Historical Museum
Augusta Historical Museum
Augusta Historical Museum
Augusta Historical Museum
Augusta Historical Museum
Augusta Historical Museum
Augusta Historical Museum
Augusta Historical Museum
Augusta Historical Museum
Phone:
+61 8 9758 0465

Address:
Blackwood Avenue | Margaret River Region, Augusta, Western Australia 6290, Australia

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 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 has drawn criticism for its exclusionary membership policies: Augusta National barred African Americans until 1990 and women until 2012. The club, which long required all caddies to be black, barred black golfers from the Masters Tournament for 40 years until Lee Elder participated in the 1975 Tournament. Tiger Woods would become the first person of color to win the tournament in 1997. He and Vijay Singh are the only people of color to win the tournament. 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.On April 4, 2018, Fred Ridley, in his first major appearance as chairman of Augusta National Golf Club, announced that the Augusta National Women's Amateur Championship would start in 2019. The tournament will take place a week before the 2019 Masters Tournament.
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