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In 1949, golfer Sam Snead won the Masters Tournament, held yearly at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia. As usual, victory at the Masters brought the winner prize money and a plaque. But that year, for the first time, something new was added: Snead was given a special green sports jacket. Ever since, Masters champions have worn their green jackets with great pride.
The Masters is the most distinguished of all American golf tournaments open by invitation only to the world's top professional golfers. Arnold Palmer won the tournament four times. But the master of the Masters is Jack Nicklaus, who has won six times. In 2002, Tiger Woods joined Nicklaus and Nick Faldo as the only golfers to win the tournament two years in a row.
The course at Augusta National Golf Club is built on the site of a former nursery and was designed by golf great Bobby Jones. Each of the course's 18 holes is named for the plants that grow nearby. Tea olive shrubs give the first hole its name, for example, and hole two is called pink dogwood. Perhaps most beautiful of all is the 13th, or azalea, hole. In all, the course features 30 varieties of azaleas in many vibrant colors.
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The Augusta National Golf Club was under fire in the early 2000s. The club's policy of not admitting women as members was the center of the controversy.
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