Only Three Sports Events Offer More Expensive Tickets Than The Masters

Tickets to the Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club are among the world’s hardest to get. They’re so elusive that a bunch of people (me included) wait every year for an email from Augusta National for a lottery drawing. “I have a feeling this year, this is going to be my year,” I say to myself every single time, only to be met with disappointment months later when I get the “We regret to inform you that your application was not chosen” communication.

It is what it is, and we all will more than likely, with the right luck and the right amount of money, get a chance to watch, at the very minimum, a practice round at Augusta at some point. While most of us love to attend tournament rounds, practice rounds seem like enough of a privilege.

 

 

 

 

 

 

View this post on Instagram

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A post shared by The Masters (@themasters)

Of course, we can all buy tickets for the Masters. However, you better have a pretty sizeable rainy day fund, large inheritance, or a genuine attitude that you’ll pay almost anything just to have a taste of the Masters in real life.

A recent list of the most elusive and expensive sporting event tickets was compiled by SlotsOnlineCanada.com, and it found that an average ticket cost for the Masters ranked fourth among all major events. With an average ticket cost of $2,650, the Masters is not an easy buy for us normal working folk. It’s a month of rent or a mortgage payment for some. It’s multiple car payments for others, and, even in today’s world, it’s a few months worth of groceries, depending on the size of your family.

Only three events, Super Bowl LVII, UFC 286 in London, and the Kentucky Derby, offered more expensive average ticket prices than the Masters did. The Super Bowl’s $9,378 average cost per ticket outshined UFC 286, the second most expensive ticket on the list, by nearly $5,000. Some Super Bowl seats in the nosebleeds were more expensive than some of the lower-positioned events on this list.

 

 

 

 

 

 

View this post on Instagram

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A post shared by MMAFighting.com (@mmafighting)

UFC 286’s significance is it is a London-based event, and the mixed martial arts promotion is not a frequent visitor there, especially not at the stakes of this event in particular, where Welterweight Champion and England native Leon Edwards will fight Kamaru Usman for the Belt. Those tickets will cost spectators $4,460 on average.

Meanwhile, the Kentucky Derby’s $2,660 price tag on average is only $10 more than the Masters, but the race is the first leg of the unmistakeable Triple Crown, which includes the Preakness Stakes in my birthplace of Baltimore and the Belmont Stakes in Elmont, New York.

Masters tickets do not all cost $2,650, and that’s overwhelmingly clear. In fact, you can buy tickets to any day of Masters week on a variety of third-party ticketing sites. StubHub, for example, sells Sunday tickets to the Masters for as little as $1,815.

If you can’t quite see yourself spending a shade over $1,800 for the tickets, practice rounds are available for $915.

The full list is available here:

1. Super Bowl LVII – $9,378
2. UFC 286 – $4,460
3. Kentucky Derby – $2,660
4. The Masters – $2,650
5. Canadian Grand Prix – $2,332
6. Austin Grand Prix – $1,604
7. Mexico Grand Prix – $1,437
8. Miami Grand Prix – 1,416
9. Las Vegas Grand Prix – $1,400
10. Wrestlemania 39 – $1,028

Cover Image Via Golf Monthly