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Court records show that the case ended in a settlement that included Augusta taking possession of the jacket with a delivery to New York City on Halloween in 2013.
Augusta turned to similarly aggressive tactics later in the decade when she sued Green Jacket Auctions in the Federal District Court for her plans to sell three blazers. (The club also opposed an auction that would “release its proprietary silverware into the flow of trade.”)
That case was also settled on undisclosed terms. Green Jacket Auctions, now known as Golden Age Golf Auctions, cited “some relationships and agreements we made” when they declined to comment on this article.
From time to time, though, Augusta National effectively agreed that jackets didn’t stay behind its gates, especially if a blazer was in the possession of a former Masters winner.
Player, three times champion, recalled this year running to the airport in the jacket after his victory in 1961. After the second place the following year and with the jacket not returned, Clifford Roberts, co-founder of Augusta National and longtime president, called in to ask about the jacket and ultimately to tell Player he should be back at the club.
“With irony, I suggested that if he wanted it back he would have to personally come and pick him up in South Africa,” Player said in an email. “We had a good relationship, and he laughed and just asked me not to consume it in public, which I never did.”
But, he admitted, “I have hosted several dinners at my house wearing it with great pride”.
Seve Ballesteros, who won in 1980, forgot to bring his back to the United States from his home in Spain the following year. Ballesteros passed away in 2011 and his sons consider their father’s jacket as a fixture there.
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