11-04-2025
What is Amen Corner? The iconic Masters holes at Augusta, explained.
What is Amen Corner? The iconic Masters holes at Augusta, explained.
Welcome to FTW Explains, a guide to catching up on and better understanding stuff going on in the world. Watching the Masters and wondering why holes 11 through 13 are called "Amen Corner" and the origin story behind it? We've got you covered.
Editor's Note: This is a new version of a story that was originally published in 2022.
That's right, Augusta National has so much history and traditions that we see year to year. And that includes calling the stretch of the course from holes No. 11 to 13 "Amen Corner."
It's kind of a strange name when you think about it, right? So where did it come from? Here's the story that's been told countless times and it never gets old:
What holes are Amen Corner?
That would be Nos. 11, 12 and 13 at Augusta National.
Why is it called Amen Corner at Augusta?
Let's go back to 1958. It was at Augusta that Sports Illustrated writer Herbert Warren Wind watched Arnold Palmer win.
In writing about that year's Masters that he wrote this (via
'On the afternoon before the start of the recent Masters golf tournament,' Wind wrote, 'a wonderfully evocative ceremony took place at the farthest reach of the Augusta National course – down in the Amen Corner where Rae's Creek intersects the 13th fairway near the tee, then parallels the front edge of the green on the short 12th and finally swirls alongside the 11th green.'
What is Amen Corner exactly?
That's a reference to a song, Shouting in That Amen Corner by Midred Bailey.
There you have it!
