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Augusta Nationwide Golf Membership, house of the distinguished Masters Event, has spent years and greater than $200 million increasing its footprint in Augusta, Georgia. The membership is shopping for up a whole bunch of acres of surrounding land for future growth.
However one property, lengthy thought-about a holdout, stays firmly within the palms of the household of its unique house owners.
The house at 1112 Stanley Rd. was in-built 1959 by Herman and Elizabeth Thacker, and it nonetheless stands simply throughout from Gate 6-A.
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It’s a modest, 1,900-square-foot three-bedroom home, however its story has turn out to be one thing of a neighborhood legend.
Over the previous decade, almost your entire neighborhood round it has been purchased and cleared, with Augusta Nationwide Golf Membership spending greater than $40 million to transform the land into parking and infrastructure for match patrons. The membership has spent greater than $280 million on property acquisitions over the previous 25 years, in accordance with Golf.com.
Dustin Johnson on the second inexperienced in the course of the first spherical of the 2026 Masters Event at Augusta Nationwide Golf Membership on April 9, 2026. (Jared C. Tilton/Getty Photos)
A lot of these owners turned millionaires in a single day.
The Thackers selected a special path. Regardless of a number of seven-figure gives, they refused to promote.
“Cash ain’t the whole lot,” Herman Thacker famously advised NJ.com in a 2016 interview.
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Herman Thacker died in 2019 on the age of 86. His spouse, Elizabeth, lived within the house for a few years after, changing into one of many final — and most well-known — holdouts in opposition to the membership’s growth.
Herman and Elizabeth Thacker. (Robin Thacker Rinder)
Since final yr’s Masters, the Thacker household has skilled a big loss: Elizabeth Thacker died in July on the age of 93.
Her daughter, Robin Thacker Rinder, confirmed to FOX Enterprise that whereas her mom is gone, the house stays within the household.
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Rinder says she is now dwelling in the home herself, “taking excellent care of it,” and confirmed that the property has not modified palms. Notably, she says Augusta Nationwide has not approached the Thacker youngsters with any new gives for the reason that household initially declined to promote.
The Thacker household house close to the Augusta Nationwide Golf Membership in Augusta, Georgia. (Google Maps)
Augusta Nationwide didn’t reply to FOX Enterprise’ a number of requests for remark.
The property is estimated to be price roughly $330,000, however that is a fraction of what Augusta Nationwide has paid out to the house owners of close by houses in years previous.
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The Thackers beforehand offered one other close by property they owned to the membership for $1.2 million, however needed to stay the remainder of their lives at 1112 Stanley Rd., the house the place they raised two youngsters, 5 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren.
The house stays, no less than for now, not on the market. Nonetheless, Rinder left the door barely open when requested if that might ever change.
“If the value is correct,” she mentioned with fun.
For now, probably the most well-known holdouts in golf endures.
