- Masters winners can earn millions of dollars for placing at the iconic golf tournament. That’s much more than the original $1,500 prize for the winner of the inaugural tournament in 1934. Some professional golfers claim, though, that the money isn’t the reason they’re playing in the tournament.
There are few enduring traditions of the Masters tournament, one of the four main championships in men’s professional golf: the iconic green blazer awarded to the winner, caddies’ white jumpsuits, the Champions Dinner, the Par 3 Contest, and egg salad sandwiches. In fact, sports broadcaster Jim Nantz coined the Masters as a “tradition unlike any other.”
