An Augusta Golf Masters Open to All online

An Augusta Golf Masters Open to All online

On Tuesday, Augusta National, the exclusive, all-male club that hosts the Masters tournament, will take an unexpected step toward modernity and release a video game. Developers have spent years replicating the course in exact detail. Every san diego and golf schools tree has the correct number of branches, and weather is determined by real conditions, so if it rains in Augusta, Ga., it rains on your screen. But that has not stopped golf purists from questioning the wisdom of selling a video game version at all — even one that is so stunningly accurate. The Masters is almost sacred among golfers, and the club is normally so wary of commercialism that it allows only a few What Should Hill Do For His PGA Tour minutes of televised advertising during each hour of the lucrative tournament. “Certainly a video game doesn’t square with Augusta’s long-standing image of stuffiness and propriety,” said Alan Shipnuck, a Sports Illustrated writer and author of “The Battle for Augusta National.”