Signed, Sealed and Delivered: the Masters Prize Besides a Green JacketSo personalized that they include the signatures of every player in a Masters Tournament field, the trophies shipped to winners are deeply cherished but barely known.The winner gets to keep a trophy, while the more famous Masters prize, the green jacket, can only leave club grounds during the year in which the player in the reigning champion. April 8, 2023, 8:00 a.m. ETAUGUSTA, Ga. — Last year, in the months after he won the Masters Tournament for the first time, Scottie Scheffler heard a parcel was coming his way from Georgia.“I didn’t know exactly what it would be,” Scheffler recalled over the winter. “They have the trophy in the clubhouse, but it’s, like, really big.”That trophy, made of about 900 pieces of sterling silver and weighing at least 100 pounds, did not leave Augusta National Golf Club. A smaller, if similarly exacting, sterling silver trophy did.Engraved in Britain, packaged in a felt-lined box befitting a head of state, and so painstakingly personalized that it includes the signatures of every player in that year’s Masters field, the trophy featuring Augusta National’s clubhouse is far less renowned than the green jacket the
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Signed, Sealed and Delivered: the Masters Prize Besides a Green Jacket
