$10,000 TICKET MASTERS

GIVEN how difficult it is to buy Masters tickets, it was interesting to learn the stark contrast in the 1950s. ‘You’d go to the bank for a $10,000 loan and they’d pressure you to take 50 Masters tickets as part of the deal,’ said Augusta businessman Hugh Pratt, who has lived in the area since 1951. To think, 50 tickets now would be worth more than $500,000.