Nov. 6 in Masters history

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In this photo from the 1950s, President Eisenhower tees of in front of the clubhouse of the Augusta National Golf Club. [FILE]

1967: Veteran golf writer Charles Bartlett, of the Chicago Tribune, dies. Although he missed the first Masters Tournament in 1934, he was there in 1935 for Gene Sarazen’s “double eagle” victory and was a longtime booster of the Augusta event thereafter.

Bartlett was the first secretary of the Golf Writers Association of America, serving 21 years.

After his death the GWAA created the Charlie Bartlett Award, given annually to a playing professional who makes contributions to the betterment of society.

1952: America’s new president elect stood this morning where he said he wanted to be for months – teeing off at the Augusta National Golf Club. A huge contingent of national news media surrounded vacationing Dwight Eisenhower as he hit his first drive straight down the fairway.

“Better rest on that, Ike,” Clifford Roberts, club chairman, could be heard to say.

But press photographers begged for more, so the Victor of D-Day who had won the vote a few days earlier, teed up again, and – as the cameras flashed – struck it 30 yards farther.

1956: Augusta voters support Ike in presidential election, unlike the rest of Georgia, which seems to disagree with his pro-civil rights actions.