The Masters is one of the four major championships in men’s professional golf. The Masters, played every year at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga., is one of golf’s four majors. It is a tournament founded by Bobby Jones and revered by golfers everywhere.
Here is information on the 2012 Masters golf tournament:
Dates: April 5-8, 2012
Location: Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Ga.
The U.S. Open golf tournament is one of the four golf majors, and it is the one run by the United States Golf Association, one of golf’s two governing bodies. It is played every year in June, and is the second major on the golf calender, after The Masters and before the British Open. The U.S. Open has been played since 1895.
2012 U.S. Open Golf Tournament
• When: June 14-17
• Where: Olympic Club (Lake Course), San Francisco, California
HOW WE DID IT
The last time Golf Digest ranked America’s Toughest Courses, in 2007, a group of editors got together and compiled the list based on their experiences. This year we took a scientific approach. We sent a survey to the Golf Digest Panelists, the roughly 1,100 avid golfers who create our 100 Greatest Courses rankings, and asked them to list the 15 courses that wear them out the most. The survey ballot included all 50 courses from our 2007 list, the 100 courses with the highest combined USGA Course Rating and Slope Rating scores, and the 100 courses that panelists rated highest in Resistance to Scoring—one of the seven criteria they use when evaluating 100 Greatest candidates. We also encouraged panelists to include write-ins. Courses earned points for appearing on panelists’ top-15 lists: five points for being first-, second- and third-toughest, four points for fourth-, fifth- and sixth-toughest, and so on. The courses appear in order of their point scores. —Peter Finch
How it did: On-course income includes all money earned on the PGA Tour and the five international tours (Japan PGA, PGA European, Australasian, Southern Africa, Asian) and the Champions Tour, LPGA Tour, Ladies European Tour and the Japan LPGA. It also includes unofficial money won through Dec. 11 in non-tour events.Off-course income includes estimates of all money earned from endorsements, bonuses, appearance fees, corporate outings, speaking engagements, licensing fees (video games, trading cards, etc.), course architecture, books, instructional videos and businesses that capitalize on a person’s status as a player, such as product lines including clothing, wine and turfgrass.