Tiger Woods puts the Masters green jacket on Dustin Johnson in 2020.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. — Come Sunday evening at Augusta National Golf Club, an individual will gain the Masters green jacket and their life will modify endlessly.
It’s the most coveted jacket in all of sports activities, but it is absolutely not your standard coat. Here’s what you need to know about it.
— First, the shade. You know you were wondering. It’s Pantone 342, also identified as Masters Eco-friendly. (Your new basement hue? Clever preference.)
— The club acquired its initial jackets from Brooks Uniform Firm in 1937, but associates, who were being inspired to obtain them so patrons could recognize trusted resources of facts, were being not thrilled about how heat they have been. There have been a several diverse suppliers due to the fact then, but Hamilton Tailoring Co. has made them considering the fact that 1967. (No, you just cannot buy 1.) Besides the club logo on the remaining chest pocket, it is also on the brass buttons.
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— The jackets weren’t offered to Masters champs right until 1949, when Sam Snead received. They had been awarded to all past winners retroactively.
— You possibly know this one particular, but Masters tradition is that the preceding tournament’s winner places the jacket on the new champ every Sunday night. But what about again-to-back winners? In 1966, when Jack Nicklaus repeated as champion, club co-founder Bobby Jones instructed, jokingly, that Nicklaus handle equally roles and slip it on himself. The past two occasions there was a repeat winner, with Nick Faldo in 1990 and Tiger Woods in 2002, the club’s chairman assisted with the jacket.
— Jackets are reserved for club members and Masters winners. Which is it. And really don’t even think about getting them off the grounds. That correct is reserved only for the reigning champ after their victory. But when their yr is up and they return up coming April to defend their title, the jacket stays set as quickly as the new champion places theirs on.
— There are, on the other hand, selected times Masters champions get to don their jacket off grounds, which is when they might be representing the tournament or club at a purpose or function.
— As the Masters nears its end, the club will pick a handful of jackets that could possibly match the prospective winner. The jacket the winner receives the night time of their victory is not the just one they preserve. They are equipped immediately following their win and receive the new one particular shortly following.
— Jackets aren’t discovered in the wild usually. And they are not inexpensive. Again in 2013, Green Jacket Auctions sold inaugural Augusta Countrywide Invitational winner Horton Smith’s jacket for $682,229.
