Augusta National Cracks Down On Reselling Masters Tickets
- Updated: April 6, 2019
If you’re looking to buy or sell Masters tickets, you may want to listen up … or else you could be banned from Augusta National forever (cue The Sandlot!)
Think we’re joking? Check it out:
How @TheMasters is cracking down on the resale of online tickets. My story on how Augusta National is busting re-sales with 100% certainty. Buyer and seller beware! https://t.co/ciQVBVIOFU pic.twitter.com/qNHv5Pw2HC
— Adam Schupak (@AdamSchupak) March 27, 2018
Good news, you get a full refund. The bad news? Your name will be “permanently removed from all ticket lists.”
Apparently, the tournament’s ticket police (of course they have their own ticket police) began using color-coded strips on the bottom of the tickets beginning last year to determine the original purchasers.
Each of the colors in the six-color design represents a letter and five numbers that match the corresponding ticket number. Originally, the tickets used to be numbered only, but savvy resellers would obscure them so they couldn’t be tracked.
It’s surprisingly the Broadway show Hamilton, where tickets resell for as much as $1,000, hasn’t adopted this color-coded method yet. Then again, it’s not the Masters.
Can you imagine getting to the front gate of the freakin’ Masters and being told you can’t get in?
Honestly, this might be the worst letter to receive in the history of sports.
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