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Can I play a round of golf at Augusta National or can I go visit the course? No. Augusta National Golf Club is a private club and is only accessible to club members and their guests. The public may visit the course only during the Masters Tournament and only with the proper ticket or badge. How can I become a member of Augusta National Golf Club?
Typically about 28 media members are chosen each year in a blind draw to tee it up. Augusta University’s men’s golf team gets to play the course once a year, and word is that club caddies, and Augusta workers, can tee it up once a year as well.
FAMOUS members of the exclusive Augusta National Golf Club include: Bill Gates: Founder of Microsoft, worth £76bn Warren Buffett: Business investor, worth £67bn Condoleezza Rice: Ex-US Secretary of State
While its membership roll is not public, Augusta has in the neighborhood of 300 members and most are allowed to bring guests on select days of the season to play. While members are required to be on property with their guests, they don’t actually have to accompany them throughout the round.
But there is another perk that comes with it, one that gets far less attention but is quite welcomed by those who are able to take advantage: the ability to play Augusta National, basically, whenever the club is open.
5. When can members play? The club's season runs from October through May, with an obvious break in play for the Masters. Members can bring several guests at a time, but guests won't be allowed onto the property until their member has already arrived.
Can I play a round of golf at Augusta National or can I go visit the course? No. Augusta National Golf Club is a private club and is only accessible to club members and their guests. The public may visit the course only during the Masters Tournament and only with the proper ticket or badge.
For as long as he lives, or as long as he can physically swing a club, every Masters winner can enter the tournament again every year.
According to Golf Week, there are a few ways to play at the course. And getting invited by a member is one of them. However, despite being a 5-time champion at the Masters, Tiger Woods doesn't have a membership at the Augusta. The other option for Charlie to play at the Augusta would be to become a volunteer.
There are roughly 300 members of Augusta National, and being invited by one of them is the quickest way to get a round in at the famous course. Members are allowed to bring a guest on the course for a relatively small fee of $40.
It may be a purely theoretical question for most of us who will never get the chance to play at the home of The Masters. But the answer, quite simply, is no.
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Augusta National is a seasonal club. The course is shut down each May and reopens in October to eliminate a lot of wear and tear during the peak summer months in Augusta's humid, subtropical climate.
While its membership roll is not public, Augusta has in the neighborhood of 300 members and most are allowed to bring guests on select days of the season to play. While members are required to be on property with their guests, they don't actually have to accompany them throughout the round.
The club admitted its first black member in 1990, media executive Ron Townsend, and there are an estimated nine Black members at Augusta National today.
Augusta National runs a caddie service called Caddie Master Enterprises Inc. If you manage to get through the various computerized tests to get admitted to the program, put in the time and prove your worth, one day you'll be allowed to caddie at Augusta National and play the course once a year.