This is the 75-year anniversary of Sam Snead winning the first green jacket at the Masters. The tournament began 15 years earlier, but it wasn't until 1949 that Augusta National decided to award a green jacket to the winner. The previous champions got theirs retroactively.
FILE - Sam Snead sinks a 20-foot putt on the 18th green to win the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Ga., April 10, 1949. His win 75 years ago was the first time the champion was presented a green jacket. FILE - Phil Mickelson celebrates after winning the Masters golf tournament with a nine-under-par at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga., April 11, 2004. This is the 20-year anniversary of his first major.
The AP story: Gary Player, the diminutive Black Knight from South Africa, was threatened by Jack Nicklaus, Tom Weiskopf, Dave Stockton and Hale Irwin before he finally claimed the famed green jacket with a 278 total — 10-under par on the 7,020 yards of rolling hills, forests and streams that make up the Augusta National Golf Club course.and added to Greg Norman’s heartache at Augusta National. Olazabal overcame injuries that left him unable to walk three years earlier.
The AP story: “Phil Mickelson in a green jacket. Even he had a hard time believing it. The final leg in his odyssey to win a major championship came down to an 18-foot putt Sunday, the kind Mickelson had grown weary of watching others make as he stood to the side. This time, the last chance belonged to him, a birdie putt that kept him in suspense to the very end. It rolled toward the cup, swirled around the left edge and dropped in.
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