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Exclusive Classics of Golf offer...just in time for The Masters!!
Get both Stan Byrdy's wonderful book "The Augusta National Golf Club; Alister MacKenzie's Masterpiece" & documentary film "Augusta's Master Plan: From Sherman's March to Arnie's Army" on DVD, which has aired on PBS stations across the U.S...for $85.00.
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Stan Byrdy, longtime resident of Augusta and friend of Classics of Golf, has covered the Maters Tournament since Jack Nicklaus' historic 6th win in 1986.
For more info on this year's Masters here is a link to the official 2013 tournament site.
The documentary film "Augusta's Master Plan: From Sherman's March to Arnie's Army" (produced by Georgia Public Broadcasting and based on Byrdy's book) made its debut in 2011 on Georgia PBS stations.
 
In an article from The Augusta Chronicle, Byrdy (the coordinating executive producer) says, "It's an untold story of Augusta's history from 1860 to 1960. There were all these great stories out there that have flown under the radar."
In the film, Augusta's history and memories are told through golfers such as Tommy Aaron, Arnold Palmer and 98-year-old Errie Ball, the only surviving participant from the first Masters Tournament.
Here is a link to see rare video of Palmer in the 1960 Master's.
The film tells the surprising story of Augusta, Georgia's evolution from a small river town to the center of the golf universe. The fascinating account begins with the Civil War and General William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea. After 1865, the influx of wealthy northerners brought with them a new game golf.
Soon, Augusta would attract golf-playing U.S. Presidents William
 | | President Eisenhower is given a warm welcome by Clifford Roberts (r), Augusta National Golf Club president, in 1957. |
Howard Taft, Warren G. Harding and Dwight D. Eisenhower, characters like baseball great Ty Cobb, and later, a young Bobby Jones.
This documentary follows the twists and turns of the sport's growing popularity and concludes at the height of Arnold Palmer's career in the 1960s.
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Byrdy's book - "The Augusta National Golf Club; Alister MacKenzie's Masterpiece" (published by Sports Media Group in 2005) will help you understand why the course has a reputation of legendary proportion and how MacKenzie single-handedly changed forever the way courses are built.
Stan Byrdy has unearthed never before published photographic evidence of how the course looked in the 1930s, researched and documented the numerous changes made to it, and has provided the
 | | Here Bobby Jones, accompanied by Alister MacKenzie, tests out the eighth hole on Augusta National as the course nears completion in 1932. |
definitive work that answers the question of why Augusta National is the course that every golfer wants to play. Illustrator William Lanier III gives you side-by-side renderings of the original holes and the current layout so that you can see for yourself whether this storied course has stood the test of time and maintained the spirit of MacKenzie and Jones.
Byrdy also provides some of the great Masters highlights--the good and the bad, the epic moments and the disasters--relating them to the subtle nuances that make Augusta National one of the world's finest tests of golf--a course that can be friendly to the average player while showing its treacherous side when the pros compete in Golf's Greatest Challenge, The Masters.
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BOOK REVIEWS
One for the Ages... The Augusta National Golf Club; Alister MacKenzie's Masterpiece is the single greatest publication about the majestic course... Byrdy has compiled photography in a single volume that will be regarded as a tome for the fabled Georgia grounds... the first dust free coffee table book; it simply doesn't sit long enough to collect dust.
--Golf Chicago Magazine
While it can never compare to an actual visit to Augusta, The Augusta National Golf Club; Alister MacKenzie's Masterpiece, by Stan Byrdy, may be as good a written substitute as could ever be accomplished.... In detail that is both meticulous and entertaining, Byrdy traces the creation of Augusta from its days as the Fruitland Nursery.... Byrdy gives the reader far more than a history of Augusta and the Masters.
--BookReporter.com
Stan Byrdy's new book about the Augusta National Golf Club takes a long step toward reminding fans of golf design in general and The Masters in particular about the real genius behind the design and construction of the famous golf course.
--HoleByHole.com
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