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  The Masters - MSN Encarta
The event is considered one of the four most important tournaments in the sport, along with the United States Open, British Open, and Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA) Championship.
Augusta National is a private golf club and course created in the early 1930s by a group headed by champion golfer Bobby Jones.
The all-time Masters champion is Jack Nicklaus of the United States, who claimed the green jacket—the traditional prize given to the tournament winner—six times from 1963 to 1986.
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  Golf - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
A hole of golf consists of hitting a ball from a tee (a marked area designated for the first shot of a hole), and continuing to strike the ball till it is holed.
Golf is usually regarded as a Scottish invention, as the game was mentioned in two 15th century laws prohibiting the playing of the game of "gowf".
Golf is not inherently an expensive activity; the cost of an average round of golf is $36 http://www.ngf.org and the game is regularly enjoyed by over 26 million Americans.
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 The Masters Tournament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In addition to a cash award, the winner of the tournament is presented with a distinctive green jacket, awarded since 1949, highly coveted among professional golfers.
Masters champions are automatically invited to play in the other three majors (the US Open, British Open and the PGA Championship) for the next five years, and earn a lifetime invitation to The Masters.
Perhaps the most controversial aspect of the tournament is its television coverage in the United States, which the club awards on successive one-year contracts to CBS and USA Network.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Masters_golf_tournament   (461 words)

  
 The 2006 Masters Golf Tournament | History Of | Tiger Woods | Augusta | Championship | Trivia | Records | Winners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Masters Golf Tournament was not held from 1943 to 1945 because of World War II.
The champion of the Masters Golf Tournament not only gets a whole lotta cash - he also gets a green jacket, which is awarded to the winner each year.
Phil Mickelson's victory at the 2004 Masters Golf Tournament was his first victory at a major tournament and just the second time a left-handed golfer won the event.
www.kidzworld.com /article/4355-the-masters-golf-tournament-facts   (398 words)

  
 The Masters: Top ten reasons to watch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
This week's 62nd edition of the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club should top that record as long as last year's 21-year-old champion, Tiger Woods, is among the leaders.
Golf club officials have a tight reign on their secretive system, which ends up forcing most of the new tickets into the fl market.
Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga. has been the sight of the previous 61 Masters tournaments, and it isn't going to change just because last year Tiger made it look like it should have had a windmill and loop-de-loop along the way.
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 Masters Tickets, 2007 Masters Golf Badges at Augusta National
The Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia has been going on for well over six decades and is widely considered to be the premier golf tournament in the United States.
The tournament was originally called the Augusta National Invitation Tournament, but the name changed in 1940 when Clifford Roberts, one of the owners of the Augusta National Course, finally got his way and was able to change the name to simply "The Masters".
In 1967, the Masters was televised for the first time overseas, when the BBC used satellite to transmit it to millions of viewers around the world.
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 Masters Golf
The Masters Golf Tournament is an annual golf tournament held at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.
A personal invitation is required to compete in the Masters Golf Tournament, which is one of the most prestigious golf tournaments in the world (Britannica.com).
The golf course was formally opened January 1933, and Jones and Roberts scheduled the first tournament to be played in 1934.
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 The Masters Golf Tournament   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The rest is history and become golf’s “shot heard around the world.” Sarazen holed the 235-yard second shot for a double eagle.
Jones, one of golf’s greatest amateur players, and along with Clifford Roberts, supervised the building of the course in the early 1930s.
The first Masters was held in 1934, and for the first two years, the front and back nines were reserved.
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 Cybergolf Writers Corner
Whereas most tournaments trumpet loudly the bundles of cash that will be won by all who make the cut, especially the top 10, money talk at Augusta National, home of The Masters, is verboten.
As indicated earlier, The Masters does not do “commercial.” Granted, the souvenir tent, which I have frequented on four occasions, has lines of people waiting to purchase something of the tournament, even when the play is in progress: The line seems never to get any shorter.
It is a big mess of strip malls and, during tournament time, the tentacles of commerce — like a fungal infection — reach down the streets feeding the Boulevard for a mile on either side of the course.
www.cybergolf.com /writerscorner/index.asp?newsID=2732   (732 words)

  
 Masters Tickets - 2007 Masters Golf Tickets - Masters Golf Tournament
The Masters golf is a time honored event with its golf heroes and legends embedded deep in the records of some of golf’s richest history.
Golf players participate in The Masters Golf Tournament by invitation only.
Masters Golf tickets, also recognized as Masters Golf badges are golf’s most important tickets and they’re not easy to purchase.
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 Buy The Masters Tickets - Golf Ticket At Onlineseats   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
In addition to a cash award, the winner of the tournament is presented with a distinctive green sport coat, highly coveted among professional golfers.
Masters Golf is the most prestigious golf tournament in the whole world.
Once inside the grand gates of Augusta National, ardent golf fans witness the immense beauty, grandeur and great storied history that are better known as the Masters Golf Tournament.
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 About The Masters Tournament
The Masters was the dream of Bobby Jones, who played but never won a Masters, and Clifford Roberts.
The Masters Golf Tournament is without a doubt the most prestegious event in golf today.
The tournament started as the Augusta National Invitation Tournament and was held on March 22nd 1934.
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 The Masters Golf Tournament [Bet golf Odds,Masters betting odds,PGA tour schedules,Masters golf gambling lines]
Four Masters now for Tiger Woods, four green jackets, equaling the number won by the incomparable Arnold Palmer, moving up on the number, six, won by Nicklaus, who not so long ago in a burst of admiration, blithely predicted Tiger would win 10 of them.
The first Masters, originally named the Augusta National Invitational Tournament, was played in March of 1934, and in 1940 moved to its permanent home during the first full week in April.
Augusta National Golf Club gets its natural beauty honestly, as the venerable facility was built on the grounds of the former Fruitland Nurseries and each of the 18 holes is adorned with the trees and shrubs for which the holes are named.
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 Augusta golf courses
This course is 12 miles north of Augusta National Golf Club, home of the famous Masters Golf Tournament, a new golf course has been completed.
As if being inspired by its highly acclaimed neighbor, Mount Vintage Plantation Golf Club is a golf course that blends some of nature’s most beautiful handiwork with some of man’s most creative applications for the sport of golf.
This club has been listed by the USGA as one of the first 100 clubs established in the U.S. It was also recognized by "GOLF Magazine" in their 1995 list of "The First 100 Clubs in America." The course originally opened in 1892, then was changed over from dirt greens by Alister McKenzie.
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 The History of the Junior Masters Golf Tournament at Johnson Park Golf Course Racine, Wisconsin (262) 637-2840   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Mike Bencriscutto Junior Masters Golf Tournament was started in 1974 as the dream of its founder, the late Mike Bencriscutto.
The format of the Junior Masters was designed to offer the juniors a maximum number of rounds for the cost of their entry fee.
Since the Junior Masters is a statewide open tournament, it follows that the division winners rank among the best junior golfers in the state.
www.racinegolfonline.com /master.htm   (514 words)

  
 Golf au Maroc Marrakech royal rabat dar Essalam tournoi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Golf au Maroc Marrakech royal rabat dar Essalam tournoi
Fourteen golf courses in all, and fourteen masterpieces...
Golf was first introduced into Morocco at the beginning of the century even before football - and has since become a national passion.
www.golf-maroc.com /morocco   (179 words)

  
 Masters Badges and Tickets for 2008 Augusta Golf Tournaments
The Masters green jacket is the most coveted prize in all of golf.
Four day badges and practice rounds are generally delivered one week before the tournament at the latest.
We are not affiliated with the Masters, PGA Golf or their ticket office.
www.mastersgolfbadges.com /mastersprice.html   (259 words)

  
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Once inside the gates of Augusta National, golf fans witness first hand the beauty, grandeur and storied history that is the Masters Golf Tournament.
By doing so, one-by-one, the sport's greatest legends stamp their names into the annuls of golf history to be forever immortalized as Masters Champions.
But that is one of many myths about the Masters, because its roll call of champions is loaded with guys who can barely hit it out of their shadows - Bernhard Langer, Jose Maria Olazabal, Ben Crenshaw, Nick Faldo.
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 Masters Tickets, 2008 Masters Golf Tickets, Augusta National, Masters Golf Tickets
Consider this - Masters tournament badges and Masters series badges are only sold to members on the patron list, which has a waiting list dating back to 1972.
And while his total of four Masters victories is impressive, Phil Mickelson has closed the gap and his dominating performance in the 2006 Masters gave him his second title in three years.
So get your 2007 Masters tickets for the biggest golf tournament in the world so you can say you were there at Amen Corner to see it all in person.
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 The Masters Golf Tournament
One of golf's famed Majors, The Masters is a unique golf tournament.
An investor suggested that the event be called The Masters, but Jones felt that it was an overly pretentious title for the inauspicious event.
In 1953 the tournament scoring record of 279 that had stood for 14 years, was obliterated when Ben Hogan finished at 274.
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 Masters Tournament --  Encyclopædia Britannica
His double eagle—i.e., his score of three strokes under par—on the par-five 15th hole in the last round of the 1935 Masters Tournament is one of the most famous shots in the history of the game.
Palmer was the first professional golfer to earn more than a million dollars a year in prize money, the first golfer to fly his own plane to tournaments, and the first to win the Masters four times—in 1958, 1960, 1962, and 1964.
Includes news, leader boards, statistics, tournament history, a photo gallery, a course tour, and viewpoints on the tournament from a team of sports journalists.
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 The Masters golf tournament.
The Masters golf tournament was the result of the triumvirate of Robert Tyre 'Bobby' Jones, Clifford Roberts, and golf course architect Alister MacKenzie beginning in 1934.
The golf course has gone through several changes over the years but most dramatically in the past five years with the evolution of players like Tiger Woods, golf ball technology, and golf equipment in general.
The Masters has evolved from it's inception in those early days to become a Major Championship title and the Green Jacket is one of the most treasured and coveted trophies in the world of sport to behold.
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 The Masters Golf Tournament - washingtonpost.com
ET to discuss the Masters Golf Tournament and anything else golf related on your minds.
Tiger is 30, Nicklaus won his last Masters at 46, and I suspect Tiger will stay at this level just as long, if not longer, and by the time he's done, will have 25 majors to his credit, seven more than Jack.
She and many others believe that any club that stages such a public tournament, aired on the public airwaves, using public funds (as in police, fire and rescue, etc) ought not discrimate on the basis of gender.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006/04/04/DI2006040401314_pf.html   (2440 words)

  
 Masters Golf Tournament History & Cartoon Fun by Brownielocks.
This is why The Masters is held the first week of April every year in Augusta, Georgia.
However, when he first played golf at the Augusta National Golf Club it was in 1948 and he wasn't even president yet.
This decade was considered "the golden age of golf" for many fans.
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 Masters Golf Packages, Masters Badges, Augusta National, Masters Hotel Rooms, Masters Private House
Masters Golf Packages, Masters Golf Badges, Masters Private Home Programs are available for the 2008 Masters at the incredible Augusta National Golf Course.
Masters Golf Badges for all Masters Rounds: Purchase tickets using our secure online inventory for Practice Rounds, Opening and Final Rounds.
Choose from dozen's of Masters Luxury Houses in the Augusta: Available during the Masters Tournament for 4-7 nights.
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 The Masters 2007
The Golf Group is pleased to announce our programs for the 2007 Masters Golf Tournament at The Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.
These programs present the opportunity for you to attend, arguably — the most prestigious golf tournament in the world.
Whether you are entertaining clients, motivating staff or traveling with friends— our Masters Experience will attend to every detail in ensuring that your trip is a memorable and successful event.
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 Masters Golf Tournament, April 2007, Webcasts, Video Clips, TV Schedule, News & Updates
Around the Web, one of golf's biggest events included the complete schedule, related webcasts, video clips, related history and trvia as the Masters Tournament teed off on April 2- 8, 2007 and aired live on CBS Sports and the USA Network...
The Masters info gets updated each year and the past year's field, highlights and results are accessible so you can check out photos and players from the tournament for the past few years...
- A brief summary of information on the golf tournament from Encarta, with most of the links needing a paid subscription to follow, but the link to the multimedia section has two great pictures of the course and the green jacket ceremony...
www.chiff.com /recreation/sports/golf-masters.htm   (446 words)

  
 Masters Golf.
Phil Mickelson is the Masters champion once again, and now he’s making it look easy, the only surprise was the way he won.
While a Masters Golf Tournament telecast is memorable - attending The Masters Golf Tournament may be the most unforgettable experience of your life.
The Masters Golf Tournament is also the ultimate destination for your next incentive trip, meeting or customer appreciation trip.
www.sghgolf.com /masters/index.html   (374 words)

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