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Meet the brave couple who refuse to sell their house to Augusta National

Meet the family that refuses to sell their home to Augusta National Golf Club — no matter how many millions are offered by the billionaire owners of the Masters tournament.

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Steve Politi, a columnist for the Star-Ledger and NJ.com, has a fantastic profile of Augusta, Ga. residents Herman and Elizabeth Thacker, the senior couple standing up to the rich Green Jacketed members of the powerful private club.

The exclusive club is used to getting its own way. Augusta tells the world's top golfers who can play and who can't in the first major tournament of the year.