Play a round of golf at Augusta, Georgia, USA
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Augusta National's natural setting is in the Sandhills area of the Atlantic coastal plain and the Appalachian Piedmont area. The property's highest elevation -- more than 280 feet above sea level -- consists of a sand, kaolin clay and quartz cobble deposit formed about 75 million years ago when the seashore was in today's middle Burke County. Dinosaurs and giant crocodiles roamed the land.
At Augusta National, during the golf course construction in 1931, gold was discovered in these rocks and their quartz veins.
The small pond fronting the 11th green represents part of the original creek channel, which has changed many times as the golf course design has changed over the years.
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