Of all the Masters Tournament traditions — and there are many — nothing may be more identifiable with the public than the green ... Masters winner Sam Snead was awarded the jacket and it's ...

After winning the Masters in 1949, Sam Snead received a Green Jacket and an honorary membership ... Clifford Roberts and the first club members.

While members of Augusta National have been wearing jackets since the 1930s, Sam Snead was the first Masters winner to receive the coveted Green Jacket in 1949, kicking off the beloved tradition.

The green jacket is synonymous with the Augusta ... the 13th time the tournament was played with Sam Snead being its first recipient. The jacket was also retrospectively awarded to the champions ...

Sam Snead was the first Masters champion to go green. He was presented with a green jacket after winning the 1949 Masters. Augusta National then retroactively awarded a jacket to each previous winner.

With his win in 1949, Sam Snead became the first Masters champion to be awarded a green jacket and all past champions were retroactively given one. The 1949 Masters champion Sam Snead wearing his ...

Tiger Woods puts on the green jacket, 1997. That tradition, which celebrates the tournament winners as honorary members, didn't begin until Sam Snead was ... belonged to the first winner of ...

He wasn't awarded a green jacket at the time, but he did get one when the iconic jacket became a tradition. It would later be sold for $682,000 in 2013 In 1949, Sam Snead was the first champion to ...

Although the tournament was first played in 1934, the first green jacket wasn’t awarded to the winner until 1949, when Sam Snead notched his first of three Masters victories. Before that ...