It is 7:30 AM on Monday morning and much of corporate America is beginning to get dressed for work. Suits are no longer necessary in the workplace, since many companies and organizations have shifted toward "business casual" attire. Everyday is now "casual day" and instead a sport jacket, as it has so cleverly been labeled, is appropriate. A tie is no longer essential and a suit is a bit too much for the business casual environment, but a sport jacket, sport coat, or blazer as it is commonly referred to, is quite befitting. Whether black, brown, blue, gray, plaid, or even green, the sport jacket has become an everyday accouterment, yet we hardly ever take notice to what it has come to symbolize and mean in both the daily life of corporate America and the realm of professional golf.
             On the first weekend in April of each year, at the claimed Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, one man is deemed the champion of one of sports most prestigious tournaments, the Masters. The Masters is the culmination of the golfing season for professional golfers around the world, and there is perhaps no other sporting event that has as rich a tradition. The golfing season consists of many tournaments, yet none are on the same level as the Masters. It is one of golf's four majors and is unlike any other in its prominence. Many of the game's best players have won this tournament, including multiple time winners, Sam Snead, Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Tom Watson, Nick Faldo, Jose Marie Olazabal and Tiger Woods, yet some of golf's greatest have been denied the illustrious "green jacket." Professional golfers around the world share in the belief that the green jacket is the single most sacred object in the golfing community. It's above having your name engraved on a trophy or receiving prize money in excess of half a million dollars. To the victor of this tour...