Why Seven Holes at Augusta National Don’t Bear Their Original Names

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At Augusta National Golf Club, the home of the Masters, all eighteen holes are named after a plant or a tree, a nod to the club’s origins as a former nursery. Club co-founders Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts, along with Louis Alphonse Berckmans, the grandson of the Fruitland Nurseries founder Louis Mathieu Edouard Berckmans, named each hole. Per GolfWeek, Louis Alphonse Berckmans “returned after the course was built to help rehabilitate the trees and shrubs, and he was given a membership at the new club.”

Breckmans, Jones, and Roberts selected the 18 varieties of tree or shrub for each hole. The eighteen holes at the Masters, then, are the following:

1. Tea Olive
2. Pink Dogwood
3. Flowering Peach
4. Flowering Crab Apple
5. Magnolia
6. Juniper
7. Pampas
8. Yellow Jasmine
9. Carolina Cherry
10. Camellia
11. White Dogwood
12. Golden Bell
13. Azalea
14. Chinese Fir
15. Firethorn
16. Redbud
17. Nandina
18. Holly

Eleven of those holes were the original names at the first Masters, seven have been renamed: Hole no. 1 was once “Cherokee Rose” or “White Pine,” hole no 2. was originally “Woodbine,” no. 4 was “Palm,” no. 7 was “Cedar,” no. 11 was “Dogwood,” no. 12 was “Three Pines,” and no. 14 was “Spanish Dagger.” There’s some easy explanations for why the names changed, like hole no. 11 added a descriptor, and on no. 12, the trio of pines died so a new plant name was needed. Others were changed to better reflect the plants at that hole, like how the fourth hole “was known as the Palm hole in early years but is now distinguished by the flowering crab apple trees on either side of the fairway,” as the Augusta Chronicle notes.

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