The Masters has come a long way from the time when Bobby Jones invited a bunch of his golf-playing friends to the new course he founded in Augusta, Ga. The Augusta National Invitational Tournament started humbly in 1934 with the fear that the club would not survive. The tournament was soon renamed the Masters, took a pause for World War II, then played every year again beginning in 1946.
Today, it thrives. This week the tournament now known as the Masters will be played for the 90th time.
