March 22, 1934: First Masters Tournament Begins

Suggested Readings

Steve Eubanks, Augusta: Home of the Masters Tournament (Nashville, Tenn.: Rutledge Hill Press, 1997).

David Owen, The Making of the Masters: Clifford Roberts, Augusta National, and Golf's Most Prestigious Tournament (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999).

Clifford Roberts, The Story of the Augusta National Golf Club (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1976).

Curt Sampson, The Masters: Golf, Money, and Power in Augusta, Georgia (New York: Villard, 1998).

“Masters History.” Official Site of the Masters Tournament. http://www.masters.com/en_US/discover/timeline.html

“Masters Tournament.” The New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-740&hl=y

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Image Credits

Bobby Jones Image Courtesy of the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame

Bobby Jones L and Clifford Roberts, front row, with GaryPlayer, Jack Nicklaus Arnold Palmer, Dawning Gray Image Courtesy of the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame

Bobby Jones, Atlanta 1921 Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-npcc-04601

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Bobby Jones Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ggbain-29260

Clifford Roberts and Bobby Jones, 1932 Courtesy of Masters Historic Imagery Collection, Getty Images

Fruitlands, Augusta Image courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, HABS Collection

Hole 12 at Augusta National released into the public domain by Reheinrich

Jack Burke Jr, Sam Snead, Cliff Roberts, Bobby Jones, 1952 Image courtesy of the Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center

Masters flowers, 2007 Image courtesy of Torrey Wiley

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Masters spectators, 1955 Image courtesy of the Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center

Scan provided by GPB

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