The special allure of a jacket like no other

IT’S a jacket like no other.

With its rich shade of green known the world over simply as “Masters green,” an Augusta National logo on the crest and brass buttons, the jacket symbolises all the pomp and pageantry of the year’s first major in a 42 Long.

It is as exclusive as it is coveted, and all those college bowl game officials who try adding a little class to their shindigs by donning lemon yellow or tangerine jackets wind up looking like tacky copycoats. It takes a major title or a major pile of money to get a green jacket, and unless you’re the current Masters champion, you can only wear it when you return to that little corner of heaven known as Augusta National.