When Byron Nelson beat Ben Hogan in 1942 in an 18-hole playoff, no one realized the Masters tournament wouldn’t be played ...

In 1943, during World War II, the Augusta National golf tournament was canceled. At that point, the club - started by Clifford Roberts and Bobby Jones - had only been around for 10 years.

Co-founder Bobby Jones went to war, landing at Normandy one day after D-Day, where he interrogated prisoners as an Army Air Corps lieutenant colonel. Back at the club, cattle grazed on the ...