Augusta National Golf Club The home of the Masters, Augusta National was voted the PGA Tour's best course in a “Golf Digest” poll of tour players in 2012. After legendary amateur golfer Bobby Jones retired from the sport in 1930, his first golf-related project was to build a course in Augusta.
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Augusta National still ranks among the top 10 courses in the world, according to GOLF's just-released ranking of the world's Top 100 courses — but just barely. After climbing to 3rd in 2009-10, the iconic design dropped to 5th in 2017-18 and now to 9th on our 2020-21 list.
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In the 2020/2021 iteration of our rankings, Augusta National moved to No. 6, down three spots from our last ranking. As for the course itself, here's what our raters had to say: “Augusta National is the vision of Bobby Jones and his chosen architect, Alister MacKenzie.