Green Jackets

With the exception of the reigning champion’s blazer, which can go home with a winner until he returns it for safekeeping the next year, no jackets are permitted to leave the club’s grounds, at least according to Augusta National’s lore.

That has cultivated a widespread belief that almost all of those tailored symbols of golf history — presented annually to winners since 1949 and so renowned that a club official once publicly compared their status to the Statue of Liberty — are confined to several hundred cloistered acres of east Georgia.

I first learned about green jackets in golf from Happy Gilmore. But traditions like these always interest to me.

Augusta’s Green Jackets: For Winners, Members (and Buyers) Only