Your Favorite Masters Moment (Videos)

If an alien landed hear from Mars and wanted to know more about the game of golf, I’d probably send them to Augusta National. If only the Georgia Pines could talk and tell the galaxy travelers what they’ve seen over the years. There’s no other course on this planet that has played host to the type of moments we’ve seen at The Masters. Pebble Beach had Tom Watson’s chip, St. Andrews is the home of golf, and Torrey Pines had Tiger Woods’ heroics. They still aren’t Augusta, and never will be.

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The Masters is a special tournament because of the moments. Bobby Jones‘ masterpiece has changed throughout the years but the memories never go away. Like Gene Sarazen’s double eagle on the 15^th hole in 1935. It would go down as the “Shot Heard Round The World” and the swing that put the tournament on the map. The double eagles didn’t stop there and as most recently as 2012 Louis Oosthuzien pulled off the rare albatross on the third hole, and almost finished off the tournament before losing to Bubba Watson in a playoff.

Watson got past Oosthuzien by hitting one of the most memorable and improbable shots you will ever see. His ninety degree wedge form the pine straw on the 10th hole not only defied gravity, it gave him his first of his two green jackets. He’s not the only lefty to rattle the pines. Phil Mickelson’s Masters break through shook them to their core, and then in 2010 he hit a ball through them.

Like Mickelson, Adam Scott broke through with his first major at Augusta, and in 1996 his fellow Aussie Greg Norman, was victimized by golf’s greatest collapse. That wasn’t the only time Norman was on the wrong end of an historic Masters memory. In 1987 Augusta native Larry Mize’s chip in on the second playoff hole snatched the Green Jacket away from Norman.

One year prior to Mize’s chip we turned back the clock and watched a 46-year old Jack Nicklaus’ charge on the back nine for his final Masters victory. His signature birdie putt on the 17^th hole capped by Vern Lundquist’s famous call of, “Yes sir!” is the lasting image. Then there’s Tiger Woods, who has spent his career chasing the Golden Bear and has had his fair share of dramatic moments at Augusta National. It all started with his historic victory in 1997, and then he hit maybe the greatest chip in you’ll ever see on the 16^th hole in 2005.

As 2015 Masters week is finally here what will we see this year? Will it be Rory McIlroy continuing his quest for the “Rory Slam?” Hoping to stop him will be Jordan Spieth and Rickie Fowler. Maybe they could become the next great young American to slip on the Green Jacket. Bubba is going for back-to-back and Tiger is just trying to prove to us that he is “back.” We’ll have to wait till Sunday for the next chapter of The Masters story to be written.

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