Masters green jacket costs £192 to make - but one once sold for almost £525,000
dailystar.co.ukMasters winner once sold at auction for more than half a million pounds.The jacket has become one of the most famous clothing items in sport, with Scottie Scheffler the current favourite to be acquiring one on Sunday after taking a three-shot lead into the final day.
Regardless, it will be 2021 champion Hideki Matsuyama in charge of the fitting.Tiger Woods is out of contention despite his remarkable return from injury, so for now, will have to settle for a mere total of five green jackets.
That leaved second only to the great Jack Nicklaus, who has six.The £2.07 million prize-money fund that the winner will receive this year is incomparable to the £1,152 on offer when the tournament was first played in 1934.
It was then called the Augusta National Invitation Tournament, and won by American Horton Smith.He would also win again in 1936, although back then there was no jacket - which costs approximately £192 to make - at the presentations.
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