Why is Augusta so secretive?
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Augusta National is probably the most famous golf course in the world, but curiously, it is also one of the most mysterious.
The club goes so far to keep its secrets hidden that all journalists who attend the Masters have their press passes fitted with an RFID tracking device. The course is shrouded in secrecy. But why?
Written by Kaya Kaynak, illustrated by Henry Cooke.
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18 Comments
Joe, you repeated yourself a little at 4:05, you might want to check that
Such behaviour could have never taken place at Augusta
Yep, racist and classist. Just like all of golf
3:55 bit of an editing flub there
"Please THEREFORE name for me 5 reasons why Augusta is so secretive"
because they were racists
It’s not that club operators are trying to hide anything per say, instead they are simply aware that the mystique is good for the brand.
Secretive: Racist…
“Augusta won’t give us the inside exclusives Spurs and Arsenal do, so here’s a smear piece about them being institutionally racist…”
It's where they keep the files.
I've got copyediting on the brain and at 3:35 it looks like you used curly punctuation marks to start the quote, then ended it with straight quotation marks.
You just have to shoehorn in liberal, woke and left-leaning rubbish into every video. Tifo and The Athletic are a joke. Vote Restore Britain.
stick to soccer lmfao.
You guys are a joke
To keep the poors out
A rich people's sport for rich people. Not sure why people even care tbh
Soft spoken football man talking about Augusta wasn't on my '26 bingo card.
They have Ron Townsend looking like Trevor McDonald
Golf is a wealthy sport.
The last videos I've seen by Tifo, this one and Brazil 70 appear to be driven more by political ideology than sporting matters.