The Masters Tournament is one of the four men's major golf championships in professional golf. Scheduled for the first full week in April,the Masters is the first major golf tournament of the year. Unlike the other major tournaments,the Masters is always held at the same location:Augusta National Golf Club,a private course in the city of Augusta,Georgia.
Augusta,officially Augusta–Richmond County,is a consolidated city-county on the central eastern border of the U.S. state of Georgia. The city lies directly across the Savannah River from North Augusta,South Carolina at the head of its navigable portion. Georgia's third most populous city,Augusta is located in the Fall Line section of the state.
John Franklin Broyles was an American college football player and coach,college athletics administrator,and broadcaster. He served as the head football coach for one season at the University of Missouri in 1957 and at the University of Arkansas from 1958 to 1976,compiling a career coaching record of 149–62–6. Broyles was also the athletic director at Arkansas from 1974 to 2007. His mark of 144–58–5 in 19 seasons at the helm of the Arkansas Razorbacks football gives him the most wins and the most coached games of any head coach in program history. With Arkansas,Broyles won seven Southwest Conference titles and his 1964 team was named a national champion by a number of selectors including the Football Writers Association of America.
Robert Tyre Jones Jr. was an American amateur golfer who was one of the most influential figures in the history of the sport;he was also a lawyer by profession. Jones founded and helped design the Augusta National Golf Club,and co-founded the Masters Tournament. The innovations that he introduced at the Masters have been copied by virtually every professional golf tournament in the world.
Augusta National Golf Club,sometimes referred to as Augusta National,Augusta,or the National,is a golf club in Augusta,Georgia,United States. Unlike most private clubs which operate as non-profits,Augusta National is a for-profit corporation,and it does not disclose its income,holdings,membership list,or ticket sales.
The Auburn Tigers are the athletic teams representing Auburn University,a public four-year coeducational university located in Auburn,Alabama,United States. The Auburn Tigers compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC).
James Furman Bisher was a newspaper sports writer and columnist for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in Atlanta,Georgia.
Thomas Grady Cousins is a real estate developer,sports supporter and philanthropist,primarily based in Atlanta,Georgia. Cousins was a leader in shaping the skyline in Atlanta,and he purchased and brought the Atlanta Hawks to the city.
Clifford Roberts was an American investment dealer and golf administrator.
William Woodward"Hootie" Johnson was the chairman of the executive committee at Bank of America,a member of the South Carolina Business Hall of Fame,and a chairman of Augusta National Golf Club.
The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets is the name used for all of the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent the Georgia Institute of Technology,located in Atlanta,Georgia. The teams have also been nicknamed the Ramblin' Wreck,Engineers,Blacksmiths,and Golden Tornado. There are eight men's and seven women's teams that compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I athletics and the Football Bowl Subdivision. Georgia Tech is a member of the Coastal Division in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
The 1948 Masters Tournament was the 12th Masters Tournament,held April 8–11 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta,Georgia.
Sports in Georgia include professional teams,Olympic Games contenders and medalists,collegiate teams in major and small-school conferences and associations,and active amateur teams and individual sports.
PGA Tour on CBS is the branding used for broadcasts of the PGA Tour that are produced by CBS Sports,the sports division of the CBS television network in the United States.
The Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America,or simply the Georgia Trustees,was a body organized by James Edward Oglethorpe and associates following parliamentary investigations into prison conditions in Britain. After being granted a royal charter in 1732,Oglethorpe led the first group of colonists to the new colony,arriving there in February,1733. The trustees governed Georgia,one of the Thirteen Colonies,from its founding until 1752,a period known as Trustee Georgia.
Virginia Marie "Ginni" Rometty is an American business executive who was executive chairman of IBM after stepping down as CEO on April 1,2020. She was previously chairman,president and CEO of IBM,becoming the first woman to head the company. She retired from IBM on December 31,2020,after a near-40 year career there. Before becoming president and CEO in January 2012,she first joined IBM as a systems engineer in 1981 and subsequently headed global sales,marketing,and strategy. While general manager of IBM's global services division,in 2002 she helped negotiate IBM's purchase of PricewaterhouseCoopers' IT consulting business,becoming known for her work integrating the two companies. As CEO,she focused IBM on analytics,cloud computing,and cognitive computing systems.
Fred Scobie Ridley is an American amateur golfer and golf administrator who won the U.S. Amateur in 1975,was elected president of the United States Golf Association (USGA) in 2004,and then became chairman of Augusta National Golf Club in 2017.
The Eisenhower Tree was a loblolly pine located on the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta,Georgia. In the 1950s it was named after U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower who unsuccessfully lobbied to have it taken down after it interfered with his golf game. Due to its size,history,and location on a prominent golf course,it is considered iconic of the Augusta golf course and is one of the most famous trees in American golf. It was called "among the most famous landmarks in golf" by Cindy Boren in The Washington Post and "arguably the most famous tree in golf" by Martin Dempster of The Scotsman. In February 2014,the tree was removed after suffering extensive damage from a major ice storm.
The Augusta National Women's Amateur (ANWA) is a golf tournament in Georgia,held at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta and Champions Retreat Golf Club in nearby Evans. The 54-hole stroke play event debuted in 2019.
The 2020 Masters Tournament was the 84th edition of the Masters Tournament held at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta,Georgia.
