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The Making of the Masters by David Owen
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The Making of the Masters

Clifford Roberts, Augusta National, and Golf's Most Prestigious Tournament

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Narrator Kyle Tait

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Length 10 hours 22 minutes
Language English
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The Masters. For any golf fan, the words evoke the immortal greats of the game and their quest for the most prized trophy of all—the green jacket of Augusta National Golf Club.

But behind the legendary links and timeless traditions is one of the most overlooked and misunderstood figures in the history of the Masters and Augusta National: Clifford Roberts, the club's chairman from its founding in 1931 until shortly before his death in 1977. Roberts's meticulous attention to detail, his firm authoritarian hand, and his refusal to settle—even for perfection—helped build the Masters into the tournament it is today, and Augusta National into every golfer's idea of heaven on earth.

David Owen has been a staff writer for the New Yorker since 1991. Before joining the New Yorker, he was a contributing editor at the Atlantic Monthly. Owen has also been a regular contributor to numerous other magazines, including Harper's and Esquire, and he is a contributing editor at Golf Digest. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including The Man Who Invented Saturday Morning: And Other Adventures in American Enterprise and Sheetrock and Shellac: A Thinking Person's Guide to the Art and Science of Home Improvement. He lives in northwest Connecticut with his wife, writer Ann Hodgman.

Kyle Tait is a professionally trained voice actor and narrator in Atlanta, Georgia. His first brush with a microphone came in sports radio, calling baseball in the Atlanta Braves' organization. To pass the time in the off-season, he started voicing audiobooks, and a few years later he left baseball and went into narration full-time. Now his voice can be heard on a variety of audiobook and corporate voice-over outlets worldwide. When not in the studio, Tait can still be found moonlighting in the sports world, calling football, basketball, baseball, and softball on a variety of TV and radio outlets. He's also a studio host with IMG College, anchoring football and basketball broadcasts for schools like TCU, UConn, and Arizona.

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