1951 Masters Tournament Auction Pool - Players' Records & Qualifiers
Receiving the Masters Tournament participant invitation in the mail is a life changing event for those lucky and worthy qualifying golfers. Of course there are automatic qualifiers, as there was at the 1951 'tradition unlike any other', that gained field entry to battle 38-year-old Ben Hogan unsuccessfully that year. Here is the original list of 80 field participants in alphabetical order (Hogan #29) that would be cut down to 64 players prior to the tournament start - a carefully chosen list of invitations sent by Augusta National Golf Club Board of Governors. This stapled three page document is titled at the top in time-period type 'The 1951 Masters Tournament Auction Pool - Players' Records - April 4, 1951', dated the night before the first round. Ben Hogan won for the first of two times in three years and would start the 'Masters Club Dinner' in 1952 with a gathering of past champions in their green jackets, known unofficially as The Champs Dinner today.
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