Augusta National Golf Club hosts the Masters Tournament every April. The MacKenzie and Bobby Jones 1933 design is the most-televised golf course in the world, with the 12-hole front-loaded routing optimised for the Sunday-afternoon back-nine theatre that has defined the tournament’s drama since CBS first broadcast the back nine in 1956.
The course has been progressively lengthened nearly every decade since the 1990s in response to ball-and-equipment advances. Total length is currently 7,555 yards at par 72. The most recent change was a 35-yard extension to the par-4 13th in 2023, finally converting the long-discussed ‘Tiger Proof’ alteration to that hole, where Tiger Woods’s regular reach with a long iron from the corner of the dogleg had compressed the strategic intent of the hole that Bobby Jones called ‘the most fascinating hole on the course.’
Rory McIlroy completed the career Grand Slam at Augusta in April 2025, surviving a four-hole playoff with Justin Rose. The win was the eleventh Masters playoff since 1979 and ended McIlroy’s eleven-year pursuit of the green jacket that had begun with his Sunday collapse in 2011. McIlroy is the sixth player to complete the career Grand Slam in the modern era after Sarazen, Hogan, Player, Nicklaus and Woods.
Scottie Scheffler has won the Masters in 2022 and 2024 and has finished inside the top 10 in every Masters since 2020. His swing — vertical with active feet, an outlier in the modern game — has been particularly effective on Augusta’s tilted lies and the famous half-blind approach shots on the second nine.
The par-3 12th, ‘Golden Bell’, 155 yards across Rae’s Creek to a narrow shallow green angled away from the line of play, is the most-photographed hole in major championship golf. The combined par-3 12th and par-5 13th, played consecutively in the heart of Amen Corner, are the most-watched stretch of golf in any given calendar year.
The Stimpmeter readings on Masters week sit around 13.5 — at the upper boundary of green speeds the USGA considers playable for major championship hole locations. The greens are 100 percent bentgrass, overseeded into the original Bermuda. The signature Augusta National ‘Crow’s Foot’ grain pattern, identified and named by green-keeper Marsh Benson in the early 1990s, runs from north-northwest to south-southeast across most of the property.
Augusta National is a private member club with approximately 300 members. No annual Masters reservations are guaranteed; tournament badges and practice-round tickets are distributed by lottery.