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The Augusta National Golf Club has spent hundreds of millions of dollars that remodeled the landscape around its historical course. The Club, Hogar del Prestigious Masters TournamentThe majority of the neighborhoods surrounding their famous green streets have bought and dragged, replacing houses with extensive parking lots and pristine landscaping. But a house is still standing, a stubborn wait in a sea of green.
Elizabeth Thacker, who turns 93 this year, refuses to sell her home in 1112 Stanley Road despite years of profitable offers of Augusta National.
Herman and Elizabeth Thacker (Robin Thacker Rinder)
Thacker and his late husband, Herman, built their 1,900 square feet house in 1959. For decades, they observed how Augusta National became a historical golf course in an empire.
In the last 10 years, the club bought almost all its neighbors, paying millions for properties that were quickly demolished. The club’s expansion now includes additional hospitality areas, parking and even a second year.
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However, through all transactions and development, Thacker has remained firm.
A view of 1112 Stanley Road in Augusta, Ga. (Google Satellite)
“Yes, we still possess it, and yes, Mom still lives there,” confirmed her daughter, Robin Thacker Rinder, Fox Business. “She is very strong.”
It is difficult to discuss with that, because Zillow estimates that the house is worth around $ 366,000 depending on its size and location. That is above the median list of listing for Augusta of $ 215,000, as traced by Realtor.com.
However, Augusta National has made offers that far exceed that number. Rinder confirmed to Fox Business that multiple offers from Augusta National have made the family, but refused to reveal the price.
The club has a payment history well above the market value for the properties you want. A smaller house that the Thackers had on the street were sold to the club for $ 1.2 million. He was flattened in a week.
Herman Thacker (Robin Thacker Rinder)
Even so, for Elizabeth, the family home is not just a financial asset, it is a life of memories. She and Herman raised her children there. It is where their grandchildren and great -grandchildren have visited for decades. Selling simply is not on the table.
“Money is not all,” Herman told NJ.com in a 2016 interview.
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Herman died in 2019 at age 86, but Elizabeth has continued to maintain her feeling. Although Augusta National grows and evolves, the little brick house in front of the 6-A door remains intact, a quiet reminder that not everyone can be bought.
The growth of Augusta National has been amazing. The club has spent more than $ 200 million acquiring 270 acres, According to the Wall Street Journal. This expansion has turned Georgia’s home owners into night millionaires.
Customers leave the land after the game was suspended due to bad weather during the practice for the masters in the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, on April 5, 2022. (Tour Keyur Khamar/PGA through Getty Images)
The teacher itself is a big business. The 2025 tournament bag will exceed $ 20 million; The winner will take home more than $ 3 million. Some 40,000 visitors make the trip to Augusta every year: the lucky ones, since the tickets are distributed through a lottery system that receives around 2 million applicants. That puts the chances of attending the tournament in less than 1%, or approximately 1 in 200.
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| DKS | Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc. | 190.02 | -7.92 | -4.00% |
| Modern | Topgolf Callaway Brands Corp. | 6.26 | -0.07 | -1.18% |
| GOLF | Accushnet Holdings Corp | 60.86 | -1.14 | -1.84% |
| IBM | International Business Machines Corp. | 229.55 | -5.76 | -2.45% |
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Sponsors, including IBM, the main golf equipment companies and luxury accessories, such as Rolex watches, take advantage of the prestige of the tournament to exhibit their brands.
However, in the midst of all money and power, the quiet challenge of a woman remains a thorn on the side of Augusta’s national.
With thousands of cars now parked where the houses of their neighbors were once, Elizabeth Thacker’s house is one of the latest remaining structures in the neighborhood. It can be small compared to the greatness of Augusta National, but will not go anywhere soon.
This publication is a commercial update of Fox of history published in April 2024.
