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The Hottest Ticket
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Posted 04/05/98 at 1:26:37 EDT
 Ticket brokers estimate that 1,500 Masters
admission badges are fed into the black market
each year. And each one can be worth 35 times the
$100 face value.
All this week, The Augusta Chronicle explores the demand that makes a Masters
badge the most coveted ticket in sports.
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Security tight for Masters
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Posted 04/11/98 at 2:19:49 EDT
Pinkerton security guards working at the Masters Tournament are so conscious of possible misuse of admission badges that they almost escorted 1969 Masters champion George Archer off the course one year.
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Even golfers find scarcity of badges
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Posted 04/11/98 at 2:19:24 EDT
Sports fans not on the Masters Tournament patrons list aren't the only people who can't get their hands on an admission badge for golf's premier event.
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Legislature could legalize scalping next year
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Posted 04/10/98 at 2:10:36 EDT
ATLANTA - Gov. Zell Miller's impending retirement means more than the end of an era in Georgia politics. It may mean open season for ticket scalpers outside Augusta's Masters Tournament and other popular sports and entertainment events.
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Prices put Masters out of reach
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Posted 04/09/98 at 2:45:46 EDT
Once it was the ``world's best garden party'' where invitations came from the cupboards and mailboxes of Augusta. But with an influx of ticket brokers the cost of Masters Tournament ticket-badges have skyrocketed.
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Masters not the only field day for scalpers
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Posted 04/08/98 at 1:59:43 EDT
A four-day admission badge to the Masters Tournament is one of the toughest tickets in sports to obtain, but the annual golf tournament isn't the only major American athletic contest where scalping persists.
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Badge brokers turn to the Internet
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Posted 04/08/98 at 1:59:43 EDT
``Free Masters Tickets For Practice Rounds!'' Made you look. Plenty of other people looked, too.
The marketing of the Masters has exploded in recent years. Classified advertisements, travel packages, credit card offers
and a proliferation of Internet sites offer the tickets.
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Wednesday, April 8, 1998
•Masters fan keeps badges in the family
•Tuesday bad day for scalpers
•Parties blame each other for scalping costs
Tuesday, April 7, 1998
•Tuesday tickets going fast
•Practice round tickets don't come cheap
•It didn't used to be this way
•Broker's death associated with scalping pressures
•Owners give Clubhouse new image
Monday, April 6, 1998
•Few states outlaw scalping
•Scalpers do well -- despite laws
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SI Covers
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•Check out this collection of Sports Illustrated covers featuring the Masters, beginning with a
classic view of the course from 1955, right up to the startling image of a triumphant Tiger Woods in 1997.
• SI Covers the Masters
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Stories
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• Read the stories from each year of the tournament
as originally published in The augusta Chronicle (AC) and in
Sports Illustrated (SI). Choose from the list below.
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Leaderboards
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• Don't know the score from the
1946 Masters? How much did Nicklaus win by his first time? Read on below!
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