Augusta National Golf Club the Augusta National Women's Amateur Championship in 2019, a 54-hole event for the world's top amateur players. Every member of Augusta National receives a green sport coat with the club's logo on the left breast. The idea of the green jacket originated with club co-founder Clifford Roberts. Many believe it is because he wanted patrons visiting during the tournament to be able to readily identify members. Since Sam Snead's victory in 1949, the winner of each year's Masters Tournament has received a green jacket, although he does not receive membership. The jacket is presented to the new winner by the
Hale America National Open Golf Tournament should count as one of Hogan's major championships, since it was run just like the U.S. Open with more than 1,500 entries, local qualifying at 69 sites and sectional qualifying at most major cities. Additionally, all of the big names in golf who were not fighting the war were in the field. Hale America National Open Golf Tournament The Hale American National Open Golf Tournament was a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour that played for a single year, 1942. After the attack on Pearl Harbor and America's entry into World War II, the United States Golf Association's Executive