GOLF: Memorable moments at Augusta National

From: AAP Sports News (Australia) | Date: March 30, 2006 | Copyright information

AAP Sports News (Australia)
03-30-2006
GOLF: Memorable moments at Augusta National

By Mark Lamport-Stokes

DULUTH, Georgia, March 30 Reuters - The U.S. Masters, the first of the year's four
major championships and the only one staged at the same venue, was launched at Augusta
National Golf Club in 1934.

One year later, Gene Sarazen holed out with a four-wood for an albatross (three-under-par)
at the par-five 15th, the 'shot heard round the world', to set up an unlikely playoff
victory over Craig Wood.

Sarazen set the pattern for a tournament that is frequently the most exciting of the
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