Augusta National produced a very limited number of programs for its first tournament in 1934 due to financial constraints, and fear of limited intertest in the event. This lot contains one of these seldom seen 1934 programs. The 1934 Augusta Invitation Tournament program was produced  to be used as an advertising tool to solict new membership for the Augusta National and to make some much needed revenue for the start-up club. This program is in fair condition with binding still intact , but has some writing on the front and back cover, please see pictures. This program is the original program produced  which featured scores from Horton Smith's victory in the first year tournament. Under 20 copies of this program are known to to exist. This program would be a centerpiece to any Masters or golf collection. 

  The program was forty-four pages long and contained a map of the course, descriptions of the holes (written by MacKenzie), photographs of the clubhouse and other points of interest, historical information about the property, photographs of most of the members of the club, and several dozen advertisements.  It sold for twenty-five cents.  Overrepresented among the advertisers were the club's numerous creditors, who had been offered space in lieu of payment.

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