Report: Eli Manning, former CBS Sports exec among newest members at Augusta National Golf Club

It’s a contented dissimilar immoderate other: trying to spot nan newest members of Augusta National Golf Club astatine nan Masters successful April.

Sometimes nan news trickles retired up of clip specified arsenic past twelvemonth erstwhile Golfweek learned that Annika Sorenstam was 1 of nan club’s newest members. This year, citing “sources,” Sports Business Journal’s Josh Carpenter reported erstwhile New York Giants QB Eli Manning and Sean McManus, who retired aft this year’s Masters arsenic president of CBS Sports, nan longtime TV partner of nan Masters, are among nan newest members to athletics nan club’s celebrated greenish jacket. Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon, and Ed Bastian, CEO of Delta Airlines, are different caller members.

Manning’s brother, Peyton, already is simply a personnel astatine ANGC. SBJ noted successful its communicative different salient members successful nan sports organization see NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred and Braves Chair & CEO Terry McGuirk, among others.

Augusta National has traditionally cited rank arsenic a backstage matter and gone to awesome lengths to support its rank list, which is believed to beryllium successful nan vicinity of 300 and includes a group of immoderate of nan wealthiest and astir powerful businessmen — and since 2012 women — private.

Augusta National was founded arsenic a men’s-only nine successful 1932. It began hosting nan Masters successful 1934.

Augusta National declined comment.