Masters Tournament: What is Amen Corner? Where is famous stretch at Augusta National
The most famous plot of land at the Augusta National Golf Club is Amen Corner. What holes are on Amen Corner and who gave them its name?
If the Augusta National Golf Club is indeed "a cathedral of pines," then Amen Corner is its altar. That's the clear implication of golf journalist Herbert Warren Wind, who coined the phrase "Amen Corner" in a legendary Sports Illustrated article published on April 21, 1958 when he recapped the Masters Tournament won by Arnold Palmer. Amen Corner is the approach shot to the par-4 11th hole, the par-3 12th, and the tee shot at the par-5 13th hole.
It's at the lowest level of the hilly golf course co-designed by club founder Bobby Jones and Alister MacKenzie and the amphitheater setting behind the 12th tee, with huge bleachers and thousands of patrons, has been the site for numerous Masters dramas since the tournament began in 1934. Reflecting on The Masters: Jim Nantz recalls his Masters moment at the 16th hole in 1986 Despite its worshipful name, Amen Corner is a slice of heaven or, depending on how a player has negotiated parts of those three holes, a bit of golf hell. Two-time Masters winner Ben Crenshaw explained the mystique of Amen Corner to writer Damon Hack for a 2023 article on masters.
com . "I always approached that area with great trepidation," Crenshaw said. "All throughout the first nine, the players are trying to get a few strokes to cushion themselves before they go into the Corner.
They know what can happen there, and they know what has happened there. Somebody said a long time ago that the only thing you hear over there is the player's heartbeat and the caddie's heartbeat. " How did Herbert Warren Wind come to name 'Amen Corner?
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