Watching the Masters tournament or the Augusta National Women's and
may make you be thirsty to play at Augusta National
Golf Club,
but getting on one of the most famous golf courses
in the world is a very difficult proposition.
And they're really only six ways to do it.
Ryan Boundary with Golf News Net here to talk about
those six ways to get on Augusta National Golf Club
in some fashion for some round at some point in
your life. It's not an easy task to do,
but the most easy way to get on to Augusta
National is to be a member of Augusta National.
And I know that sounds kind of crazy,
because there aren't that many members,
and most of those members are business luminaries who are
worth hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars.
And they are tremendously successful people at an ultra private
club.
So trying to be a member of Augusta National may
not be easy.
Your second best way would be to know one of
those people who are a member of Augusta National and
potentially be invited to play as a guest of that
member. That does happen even though Augusta National is not
open year round.
It is not open to play year round,
however. If you get the call,
drop everything, get on a flight and get to Augusta
the next day.
The 3rd way is to be a contestant,
neither the Masters tournament or the Augusta National Women's Amateur.
If you get into the Masters tournament,
obviously you get to play the golf course for several
weeks leading up into the Masters tournament.
If you're a past champion,
you can pretty much play about any time that you'd
like.
Same thing is true for Augusta National Women's AM champions.
Getting into that tournament is successfully difficult.
Getting into the Masters is also difficult.
Both are tough propositions either way,
but you get to play during the tournament week if
you are in the Augusta National Women's and no matter
whether you make the cut or not,
you get a Friday practice round.
At Augusta National and the championship Saturday for the top
30 in ties.
If you get into the Masters field,
in addition to being able to play before the tournament,
you also get to play the week leading into the
tournament in the practice round and at least two rounds
during the tournament week itself.
4th way to get into the Masters and play Augusta
Nationals to be a volunteer at the tournament.
It's difficult to do. There are a lot of folks
who return year after year to be volunteers of the
Masters,
but they do have a volunteer appreciation day with opportunities
to play.
The golf course Can also be a member of the
media.
There is a media lottery to qualify to play for
a round Monday after the Masters and that lottery is
entered by pretty much everyone in the media,
the accredited media for that week.
And if you do qualify,
then you do get to play them a day after,
but not everyone gets that opportunity.
And then finally, you could be a caddy at Augusta
National.
Caddies do get the rare opportunity to play at Augusta
National on occasion,
and that's a great opportunity to be able to play
the golf course as someone who's not carrying the bag
that day,
but getting to play as someone who gets an opportunity
to take on one of the best golf courses in
the world.
As you tell, there are limited opportunities to be able
to play Augusta National and a limited time frame to
do so.
But if you ever get that opportunity because of these
one of six ways,
consider yourself very lucky.