From Brent Kelley,
Your Guide to Golf.
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A. Bobby Jones selected and hired Alister Mackenzie as the golf course architect for Augusta National, and Jones and Mackenzie collaborated on the design (Jones would hit test shots from different spots to help Mackenzie calibrate the holes).

Mackenzie was born in England in 1870 and worked with Harry Colt on courses in Great Britain before emigrating to the U.S. in the early 1920s.

Augusta is one-third of Mackenzie's trifecta of masterpieces, the other two being Cypress Point in California and Royal Melbourne in Australia. All three are considered among the handful of the world's very best golf courses.

Other famous Mackenzie designs include Pasatiempo in California, Crystal Downs in Michigan and the Scarlet Course at Ohio State University.

Mackenzie died in 1934, the year of the first Masters.

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