The Green Jacket

The Green Jacket

The Green Jacket is awarded every year to the Masters golf tournament winner. The Masters is the origin of golf legend Bobby Jones.  There are 33 players that have slipped on the jacket in the tournament's 70 year history which began play in 1934.

The Green Jacket was originally worn by members of the club to help patrons of the Augusta Invitational tournament identify a resource that could help out with any needed information. 

The first Green Jacket was awarded to Sam Snead in 1939.  Sweet Swinging Sammy Snead would go on to win 3 Green Jackets. Members are to wear the green jacket only while on the grounds of Augusta with the exception of the annual winner, who may take the jacket off grounds for up to a year in kind of a victory tour. 

The jacket is made in Ohio home state of legendary Jack Nicklaus who has won six Green Jackets, followed by the brilliant and resilient Tiger Woods now winner of five Green Jackets after a historic win in the 2019 Masters. The charismatic and patriarch of golf Arnold Palmer who has been a tremendous ambassador for golf has earned four Green Jackets. Multiple jacket winners are only awarded one jacket. 

It's interesting how a simple jacket becomes one of the most iconic items in the world of golf and all of sports.  Many would forgo the million dollar pay day just to wear the Green Jacket and to be welcomed into golf immortality and the pantheon of golf's greatest players.

Some more fun info on the origins of the green jacket

https://www.golf.com/tour-and-news/story-behind-masters-green-jacket

With Love,

Coach K