Meet the Founders of Golf Masters Tournament

The Masters Tournament, also known as The Masters, is recognized to be one of the four major championships in professional golf. This is an invitational event wherein the field of players is smaller than those of the other major championships. Unlike any other major championships, the Masters is held each year at the same location, the Augusta National Golf Club, a private golf club in the city of Augusta, Georgia, USA. Try to watch Golf Masters 2011 Live Online for you to experience the fun in this kind of sports.

The Augusta National Golf Club has been founded by the legendary amateur champion Bobby Jones together with an astute investment banker in New York named Clifford Roberts. Jones was the one responsible for the design of the golf course along with the help of the esteemed British Architect Dr. Alister Mackenzie. Being popular in this kind of game, Jones was able to magnetize golf’s biggest stars to the Masters, thus beginning the inaugural event in 1934. Meanwhile, Clifford Roberts oversaw countless information of the Tournament and he untiringly sought to improve the Masters experience for the patrons and competitors and the wider world of golf.

Robert Tyre “Bobby” Jones Jr. was born on March 17, 1902, St. Patrick’s Day, in Atlanta, Georgia. Since then, he lived as an amateur golfer who dominated the game from the early 1920s up to 1930s. Over a seven-year span of playing golf, he won 13 of 21 major championships that he joined in.

Clifford Roberts, on the other hand, was born on a farm in Morning Sun, Iowa, in 1894. Though Roberts was not known for being a great golfer, he had made his mark on Wall Street as a Partner with Reynolds and Company and an astute investment banker in New York. He was the co-founder with Bobby Jones of Augusta National Golf Club where he served as Chairman from 1931 through 1976 and was named “Chairman in Memoriam” after he died in 1977.