'Anyone With A Handicap Of 18 Should Be Ecstatic To Break 100' – Insights From Four Golf Monthly Staffers Who Have Played Augusta National

An image of the 10th hole at Augusta with an inset of Dan Parker playing the 12th.

Playing Augusta National is something comfortably less than 0.1% of the golf-playing universe will ever get to experience.

However, if you're covering The Masters as a journalist or photographer, you're able to enter a ballot during tournament week. If your names come out of the hat – which sadly it didn't for me in 2017 – you're able to play the course the day after the event finishes.