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      • Today his name is hardly recognized by golfers, but Cliff Roberts, co-founder of the Masters and Augusta National Golf Club, was the dictatorial visionary who set tournament and club standards that still define the golf world.
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  1. Mar 30, 2023 · Today his name is hardly recognized by golfers, but Cliff Roberts, co-founder of the Masters and Augusta National Golf Club, was the dictatorial visionary who set tournament and club...

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  3. Apr 8, 2024 · Clifford Roberts played an integral part in arguably the most famous tournament in golf - The Masters - before a shocking end to his life in 1977

  4. Clifford Roberts (March 6, 1894 – September 29, 1977) was an American investment dealer and golf administrator.

  5. Apr 5, 2011 · Clifford Roberts was born in Morning Sun, Iowa, and suffered the suicides of both his parents. Having served in the First World War, he became a successful banker on Wall Street. Roberts and...

  6. Mar 31, 2017 · Roberts, unlike Jones, grew up poor, and during the club’s early years he was close to broke. But Roberts idolized Jones, and he was determined to help him fulfill his dream of building a golf course in the South that could host a U. S. Open.

  7. Mar 6, 2020 · Clifford Roberts, the co-founder of Augusta National and the longest-serving chairman of the Masters, was born on March 6, 1894 on a farm in Morning Sun, Iowa.

  8. Mar 19, 2017 · Clifford Roberts was the co-founder, with Bobby Jones, of Augusta National Golf Club, and he was the chairman of both the club and the Masters from their beginning, in the early 1930s, until his death, in 1977.

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