Now You Know
The Masters was the first golf tournament to:
* Give spectators daily pairing sheets and a diagram of the course.
* Provide on-site parking for spectators.
* Schedule 72 holes over four days (traditionally, it was three days, with 36 holes played on the final day).
* Be played on terrain that routinely was reshaped to provide better sight lines for customers.
* Be covered live on nationwide radio.
* Provide bleachers for spectators.
* Rope off galleries and allow only players, caddies and officials inside the ropes.
* Have an on-course scoreboard network so spectators could keep track of the leaders.
* Use the over-and-under scoring system, in which the standing of players is represented not by cumulative total but by the number of strokes above or below par.
Source: “The Making of the Masters” by David Owen
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