I would have thought that, having been the authorized, chosen-by-the-club writer for Augusta National (“The Making of the Masters: Clifford Roberts, Augusta National, and Golf’s Most Prestigious Tourament”), Owen would be ineligible to write about Augusta National for the magazine.
But I am an old journalist. The times have left me behind.
Don’t get me wrong. I have always enjoyed Owen’s work, on golf and man other subjects — even the book he wrote under, as I understand it, ANGC’s supervision, in which Marion Hollins gets four and a half pages.
P.S. I see now that Owen’s piece is on the website, but not in the magazine. Maybe that makes a difference.