Augusta National Golf Club Spent $280M Buying Up Homes Nearby — But One Georgia Family Won't Sell Their $338K House
Monday, April 20th, 2026
You don't get very many chances to turn down a major payday, but for one Georgia homeowner living on the rough outskirts of a famous set of links, saying no to a Masters-sized offer was par for the course.
Elizabeth Thacker and her husband, Herman, lived in a single-story, three-bedroom house on a 0.67-acre lot at 1112 Stanley Drive in Augusta, Georgia. They raised their two kids in that house they built, and even their grandson, Scott Brown (1), became a professional golfer. But they still faced the task of overcoming their neighbor with deep pockets, the Augusta National Golf Club (2).
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