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Add us as a preferred source on GoogleFollow<\/a><\/p>\nAnyone in the Masters field is allowed to play the course when it is open in the days, weeks and months leading up to the tournament.<\/p>\n
And some of those players take advantage of an added perk: a room in one of the Augusta National cabins.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe greatest golf experience in the my opinion in the world is playing Augusta, having dinner in the clubhouse, a post-dinner glass of wine, walk around and see the history,\u201d said 2012 U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson, who said he\u2019s been invited to stay in the cabins a handful of times. \u201cYou go up and can call up any Masters [on TVs in the cabins] and \u201997 is my favorite. And then you wake up and you do it again. It\u2019s so great.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s so much tradition around the grounds whether it\u2019s the caddie bibs or Amen Corner. It\u2019s just a place where you remember the shots and the putts hit more than any other place. It\u2019s the same golf course every year so fans get to know it. You get to understand it and remember it from years past, \u2018this is exactly where Jack Nicklaus won or Arnold Palmer won or Gene Sarazen.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Simpson is not in this year\u2019s Masters field but is well-versed in cabin protocol, having first been a guest with his father when he was 12 years old. You don\u2019t need a spot in the Masters field to be invited to Augusta National.<\/p>\n
But if you\u00a0are\u00a0playing and want to stay on site, there\u2019s a bit of protocol that must be followed.<\/p>\n
The rules of Augusta National\u2019s cabins<\/p>\n
A player can phone the club in advance to book a tee time for practice, but staying in one of the dozen or so cabins that dot the property requires a member to serve as host.<\/p>\n
And that can be a bit awkward, as the cabin experience is more than a high-end hotel room\u2014guest fees, caddie fees and dinners all land on the members\u2019 tab.<\/p>\n
The member typically plays golf with the group, including on the adjacent par-3 course. The member might also host dinner.<\/p>\n
Simpson said he offers to pay\u2014the tab for a day or two can run more than $2,000\u2014right up front but says it\u2019s tough getting them to accept. \u201cI want to do something,\u201d he said. \u201cI want to pay for the caddies, dinner. I\u2019ve tried to pay over the years and nobody ever lets me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then he adds: \u201cI want to be able to ask them again.\u201d<\/p>\n
The property has more than a dozen cabins that provide housing for members and guests, and seven of them form a semi-circle just off the 10th\u00a0fairway, near the par-3 course. Several would be familiar to golf fans who tune into the broadcast.<\/p>\n
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Butler Cabin is the scene for televised post-event ceremony, including this one in 2020. | Augusta National\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
The Butler Cabin is near the clubhouse and is where the annual televised awards ceremony takes place. It was used for the first time on TV in 1965. The Roberts Cabin, named after the original club chairman, Clifford Roberts, is also near the clubhouse, as is the Eisenhower Cabin, which is just off the 10th\u00a0tee.<\/p>\n
Ben Crenshaw, who won the Masters in 1984 and 1995, recently visited Augusta National and stayed in Butler Cabin.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a wonderful local member who hosts us,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve stayed in a few of the cabins over the years. They\u2019re just great, so nice and to be there on the grounds brings back a lot of cherished memories. You realize how lucky you are.\u201d<\/p>\n
Crenshaw said the cabins are spacious and \u201creally well done. They\u2019re handsome, not fancy, just so luxuriously tasteful.\u201d<\/p>\n
Inside the Eisenhower Cabin, fit for a President<\/p>\n
Crenshaw, a World Golf Hall of Fame member, has also stayed in the Eisenhower Cabin, which has a history of its own and is far larger than it appears from the front. It is three stories tall, has seven bedrooms and was built in 1953 for President Eisenhower, who took office that year. The cabin, according to Augusta National, was built to specifications of presidential security.<\/p>\n
Eisenhower became an Augusta member in 1948 shortly after a visit. The club said he visited five times prior to his presidency, 29 times while in office and 11 more following his second term and prior to his death in 1969.<\/p>\n
It has been modernized but also retains its historical features. Members paid for its construction, and unlike other cabins, it has a basement that was designed to accommodate the Secret Service.<\/p>\n
President Ronald Reagan stayed in the Eisenhower Cabin during a 1983 visit that became infamous for a gunman breaking onto the property and holding hostages in the pro shop in an effort to speak to the President. After a two-hour standoff, the situation ended peacefully.<\/p>\n
Adam Scott, who won the Masters in 2013, said he\u2019s only stayed in the cabins twice, but one time he was in the Eisenhower.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a big cabin,\u201d Scott said. \u201cI think there\u2019s a lot of memorabilia in there from then. But I don\u2019t remember it looking like it\u2019s from the \u201940s or \u201950s or such.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The Eisenhower Cabin is more spacious that it first appears. | Fred Vuich\/Sports Illustrated<\/p>\n
The club typically closes in late May so there is not much time for member play following the Masters. The summer months are devoted to course improvements and often see turf replaced or some greens altered.<\/p>\n
It then opens again in mid-October after being overseeded with rye grass which gives the course its lush, green appearance.<\/p>\n
Often when players visit under such circumstances, they take advantage of the time by playing multiple rounds in one day, sampling the wine cellar, eating dinner at the club and playing the par-3 course. They never leave the premises.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah. Did the whole lot,\u201d Scott said. \u201cYeah. It\u2019s fun. Super fun. Tiring, but fun.\u201d<\/p>\n
When asked about his experiences, Jordan Spieth answered so simply and matter-of-factly that it almost sounded routine. Like, well, \u201cof course\u201d he had stayed in one of the cabins at Augusta National!<\/p>\n
\u201cMany times,\u201d said the 2015 champion. \u201cAlmost every time I\u2019ve done it, it\u2019s been with a group of members, so it\u2019s not like it was a perk. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m actually just allowed to do it on my own [he cannot].<\/p>\n
\u201cI know I can play it whenever and I can bring non-playing guests but I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m allowed to stay there and I haven\u2019t really\u2014any time I\u2019ve gone solo I\u2019ve gone in and out on the same day and the other times I stayed there it\u2019s always been in a group of at least two groups.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut, yeah, it\u2019s spectacular. It\u2019s a great experience. You have a lot of great golf courses that are fun places to take groups now. That one is very different from some of the newer ones, where it\u2019s more casual and lit up greens and all that. Obviously it\u2019s a little more buttoned up there … there\u2019s obviously history everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trevor Immelman, who won the Masters in 2008 and now CBS\u2019s golf analyst, said he visited in October soon after the club reopened for the season.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had a wonderful day, perfect weather,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s like stepping into heaven, playing a round of golf. Everything about it is so special.\u201d<\/p>\n
Just talking about all this kind of had Simpson a bit wistful. He\u2019s not in the Masters field this year and hasn\u2019t played the tournament since 2022. In 2019, he had a front-row seat to history, playing in the second-to-last group, one in front of Tiger Woods, who went on to win<\/a>.<\/p>\n Simpson said he loves throwing out a trivia question about that final round: who are the only two players among the six in the last two groups who did not hit his tee shot in the water at the 12th\u00a0hole?<\/p>\n Woods, of course, was one of them. \u201cNot many people get me,\u201d Simpson chuckled.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s tough not to be there again,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m trying. It\u2019s such a great place.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0More Golf from Sports Illustrated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Masters invitation comes with far more than just a spot in the first major championship of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-557146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}