The Masters is synonymous with everything that’s good about golf, the history, the legendary players and a truly iconic course in Augusta, but how good is it? We asked leading golf architect Clyde Johnson to share his view on the Alister MacKenzie classic.

If you’re heading to the Masters, the gateway city is Atlanta, the Georgian state capitol, home of Martin Luther King Jr, Coca-Cola, Gone with the Wind, the 1996 Olympics, 2021 World Series’ winners Atlanta Braves and an awful lot of golf fans.

Every year we’re all captivated by the Masters at Augusta National, one of golf’s great spectacles, but watching it in-person takes it to a different level, explains golf writer Kit Alexander.

It all began with an amateur golfer and an investment banker. Bobby Jones, a lawyer by profession, was a champion golfer while Clifford Roberts had made his fortune on Wall Street.

A brief history of the mastermind behind Augusta. Born in Yorkshire in 1870, to Scottish parents, Alister MacKenzie was christened Alexander but always referred to as ‘Alister’ (the Gaelic variant).