<Tr> <Th> Slope rating </Th> <Td> 137 (unofficial) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Course record </Th> <Td> 63 - Nick Price (1986), Greg Norman (1996) </Td> </Tr> <P> Augusta National Golf Club, located in Augusta, Georgia, is one of the most famous golf clubs in the world . Founded by Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts on the site of the former Fruitland (later Fruitlands) Nursery, the course was designed by Jones and Alister MacKenzie and opened for play in January 1933 . Since 1934, it has played host to the annual Masters Tournament, one of the four major championships in professional golf, and the only major played each year at the same course . It was the top - ranked course in Golf Digest's 2009 list of America's 100 greatest courses and was the number ten - ranked course based on course architecture on Golfweek Magazine's 2011 list of best classic courses in the United States . </P> <P> The club has drawn criticism for its exclusionary membership policies: Augusta National barred African Americans until 1990 and women until 2012 . The club, which long required all caddies to be black, barred black golfers from the Masters Tournament for 40 years until Lee Elder participated in the 1975 Tournament . Tiger Woods was the only person of color who won the tournament . </P>

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