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Forget the Masters Champions Dinner, this is the most fun Tuesday supper in Augusta

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As past champions gather for dinner, honor and stories every Masters Tuesday, there's an even more exclusive, and fun, dinner going on downstairs.

On March 31, 1952, Ben Hogan invited his fellow Masters champions to attend โ€a stag dinner. โ€ A table of men. No wives allowed.

And while that practice remains today at the Masters Tournament , a handful of the First Ladies of the Masters Club have created their own tradition. Another supper. โ€œWe get the best of both worlds,โ€ said 2011 winner Charl Schwartzel.

โ€œWe get to eat with the boys and then join the wives afterwards. โ€ A dinner. Then an afterparty?

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