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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

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Blast

Ken block and photographer Jim Mangan. I have the book of photos from this and I love it.

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John Cleese on Creativity

Creativity is almost always: unlearned. Ask young children, “Are you creative?” They’ll all raise a hand. By age 16, none of them will because they’ve had their creativity gently squeezed out of them by those who think conventionally.

I don’t worry about: unproductive days. I learned from Graham Chapman on Monty Python that no matter the distractions, over a week we’d get 15 to 18 minutes of sketches completed. Knowing there’s an average takes the pressure off.

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