1990: Bermuda sod around the greens at Amen Corner is replanted, putting the finishing touches on restoration work from October floods that damaged much of the famed “Amen Corner” of Augusta National Golf Club.
Key to the repair of the No. 11 green was the replanting of 6,700 square feet of bent grass sod brought by refrigerated truck from Pennsylvania, general manager James Armstrong Jr., told The Augusta Chronicle.
1952: President-Elect Dwight Eisenhower was busy at his desk at the Augusta National Golf Club, said to be conferring with President Harry Truman on Cabinet selections.
On the golf course outside, however, things didn’t go so smoothly.
Playing in a foursome that included Cliff Roberts, William E. Robinson and club pro Ed Dudley, the former supreme Allied commander caught “bogey fever,” The Chronicle reported, and finished a round of 47-46 – 93. Par, the newspaper noted, was 72.
The old general was “emphatically not happy,” Dudley told reporters.
1992: Juan Samaranch, head of the IOC, says membership policies of Augusta National will have no bearing on whether or where golf will be played at the 1996 Olympics. The private club’s membership is “not an issue,” he tells the Associated Press.