We don’t need to tell you that Augusta National Golf Club is a stunning course from start to finish and home to some of the most iconic holes in world golf. Most notably, Amen Corner…
What is Amen Corner?
Amen Corner at Augusta is made up of the 11th, 12th and 13th holes and are the real showpieces.
For many, Amen Corner has been the catalyst leading to major glory, but for others it has been a Green Jacket crushing affair. Who can forget Jordan Spieth’s collapse at 12 that led to Danny Willett winning the Masters in 2016?
Francesco Molinari also found the water which helped Tiger Woods win his fifth Green Jacket in 2019. But it’s also gifted players victory like in 1992 when Fred Couples fell short of the green, but somehow his ball stopped on the bank above Rae’s Creek.
Origins
In 1958, the great Arnold Palmer was playing some of his best golf, and it was at that year’s Masters that the name Amen Corner was born.
Palmer played the three holes in stunning fashion and this allowed him to go on and claim his first Masters title.
The origins of the name isn’t quite as exciting as you might think. Renowned sports writer Herbert Warren Wind, in his report for Sports Illustrated, wrote: “On the afternoon before the start of the recent Masters golf tournament, a wonderfully evocative ceremony took place at the farthest reach of the Augusta National course – down in the Amen Corner where Rae’s Creek intersects the 13th fairway near the tee, then parallels the front edge of the green on the short 12th and finally swirls alongside the 11th green.”
A new term was born.
