Augusta Golf Course, America

America golf course Augusta, Georgia.

Augusta was the result of a suggestion made by a New York banker, Clifford Roberts, to the great Bobby Jones. The course was laid out by Alister Mackenzie in the 1920s in the grounds of a disused nursery.

Viewers of the Masters on television will have seen the spectacular flowering shrubs that line the fairways and which give each hole its name. Augusta is the most exacting course and yet built with such subtlety that the average player can play round quite happily.

The Masters tournament, which is held there each spring, produces spectacular golf when the greens, specially prepared, are lighting fast and to score well the professional has to put his approach shot in exactly the right place. The course is best known for the 11th, 12th and 13th holes, which were named the "Amen Comer" by the American golfing writer, Herbert Warren Wind, who recommended a quiet word with the Almighty as an aid to playing them without disaster.