The Material Review
Issue 176: The Masters Edition Pt. I
The essential reading for the Masters. Stop indexing the internet.
The Wall of Green
“Ode to the Masters” [The Old Ghosts]
Holy Ground
“Walter Wright Thompson died before he could fulfill his dream of walking Augusta National during the Masters. This spring, his soon took that walk for him.” [ESPN]
Inside the Cultish Dreamworld of Augusta National
“The home of the Masters Tournament is a prelapsarian golf paradise, combining good manners and Southern delights with exclusion and self-satisfaction.” [The New Yorker]
The Woman Who Invented Augusta National
Currents - Release 029
“Surf and Turf: 30 Finds for the Fairway” [Vintage Trouts Journal]
The Call of the Masters
“How Augusta’s once-modest invitational, shaped by Robert T. Jones, Jr., became golf’s most beloved fixture—and its most imitated.” [The New Yorker]
The Masters
“How Bobby Jones’s dream course, Clifford Roberts’s zeal, and decades of drama turned Augusta’s invitational into golf’s defining major.” [The New Yorker]
The Legacy of the Black Caddies at the Masters
“They would often form special bonds with the golfers that lasted decades. Carl Jackson caddied for Ben Crenshaw dozens of times, including for his two wins at Augusta.” [NYT]
The Masters Its Ownself
“Something mythical happens to every writer who goes to The Maters for the first time, some sort of emotional experience that results in a search party having to be sent out to recover his typewriter from a clump of azaleas.” [Dan Jenkins]















































































