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Things the Press Doesn’t Know About Augusta National

So you think John Snow resigned from the club to save himself embarrassment?

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Let’s see. They could hold the tournament in private, pretty much the way it started back in 1934. The club has a waiting list of ticket-holders a mile long; the same 30,000 or so patrons would show up who always show up to eat pimento cheese sandwiches and drink soft drinks from the Augusta National’s signature green paper cups.

They could choose not to invite the press. If they wanted to, they could make their own film of the tournament (they always do) and then just release the film after the event.

They could, in short, do anything they wanted to. The Augusta National Golf Club, most delightfully, can flip the bird to the entire culture if it so chooses.

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Lawrence Henry writes every week from North Andover, Massachusetts.

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