Masters delays ticketing process for 2021 tourney
The Masters Tournament has delayed its ticketing process for the 2021 championship as it seeks a way to allow some number of spectators for the first major of the year.
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Patron Series Badges are good for the four tournament rounds only, and do not include practice rounds. The cost of a badge for 2020 was to be $375, and when the Masters announced in August that it would play in November without spectators, it offered to defer those badges to 2021.
Practice rounds are another matter. Those tickets are distributed for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday via a lottery conducted the previous spring. Those tickets were also deferred to 2021.
Because all of these tickets and badges have been pre-sold, Augusta National has a difficult problem in figuring out how to proceed with presumably a smaller number of spectators allowed on site. In the email, the club thanked its patrons for "continued patience'' as it looks to communicate a definitive answer.
Crowd sizes are not announced, but it is generally believed that around 30,000 Series Badges are sold. Whittling that number to even half would require some ingenuity, possibly allowing admittance for a limited number of days or again deferring attendance a year.
