With the Masters Tournament coming up, I thought I would begin posting interesting facts about The National as well as the Tournament itself. The first blog will let you know what you need to do in order to play in the Tournament! All you need to do is one of the following 19 things.
- Former winners of The Masters
- Winners of the last five U.S. Opens
- Winners of the last five British Opens
- Winners of the last five PGA Championships
- Winners of the last three Players Championships
- Winner and runner-up from the last U.S. Amateur Championship
- Winner of the last British Amateur Championship
- Winner of the last Asian Amateur Championship
- Winner of the last U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship
- Winner of the last U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship
- The top 16 finishers (including ties) from last year’s Masters tournament
- The top 8 finishers (including ties), from last year’s U.S. Open
- The top 4 finishers (including ties) from last year’s British Open
- The top 4 finishers (including ties) from last year’s PGA Championship
- The top 30 finishers on last year’s PGA Tour money list
- Winners of PGA Tour events from the previous Masters through this year’s Masters, providing those tournaments awarded full FedEx Cup points (no opposite-field tournaments qualify)
- All players who qualified for last year’s Tour Championship
- The Top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking at the end of the previous year
- The Top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking published in the week prior to this year’s Masters
So fellow golfers, choose which one you would like to accomplish and we will see you playing the first week of April!
Doug