With the Masters at Augusta getting an even bigger viewers every year, many new followers are left questioning why a inexperienced jacket is awarded to the general winner.
A 12 months after Jon Rahm‘s spectacular victory, the jacket has been taken byScottie Scheffler and celebrates its platinum anniversary as a prize for the winner of the Augusta Masters.
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Why is the Masters jacket inexperienced?
Though it was not till 1949, with Sam Snead, that the champions had been invested in a event that started in 1934, the custom of seeing the members in inexperienced dates again to 1937 when Clifford Roberts, the Masters chairman, wished to extra simply determine the rivals from the remainder of the company to make it simpler, amongst different issues, for the waiters to not deposit the payments on their tables.
One other much less literary legend says that Bobby Jones, on a visit to the British Royal Liverpool, noticed that the workforce captains wore a jacket and copied the thought.
The garment, which isn’t offered however prices not more than 250 euros to supply, has change into probably the most prized merchandise in world sport. That it was inexperienced and no different color is as a result of it’s the color of the azalea bushes, probably the most attribute piece of nature at Augusta Nationwide.
