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Augusta National Hole Names And Hole-By-Hole Guide

Augusta National Hole Names And Hole-By-Hole Guide

All the Augusta National hole names pay homage to its former life as a plant nursery. They also reflect the importance the club, which hosts and runs The Masters, places on the presentation of its course. It is estimated that more than 80,000 plants of over 350 varieties were added to the layout.

It was Bobby Jones, Clifford Roberts and Louis Alphonse Berckmans who named each hole. Berckmans was made a member of the club and returned to Augusta National at the age of 74 to rehabilitate the threes and shrubs around the course. It was he that decided where to plant each of the 18 varieties that are now the names of the holes.

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