The Family Home the Thackers Kept Beside Augusta National

The house on Stanley Road

The 2017 Masters brought cars past the three-bedroom brick house where Herman and Elizabeth Thacker lived. Their stretch of Stanley Road in Augusta, Georgia, was right beside the tournament parking. In GOLF.com’s photos from that April, you can see Herman outside his house and get a sense of how close his front yard was to all the activity. The course was the reason people were coming. A family home was still there when they arrived.

The view from above helps explain why the house stood out. In 2026, the outlet published aerial photos from the Richmond County assessor that show the area west of Augusta National in 2008 and again in 2025. You can see streets lined with homes in the earlier view and land set aside for parking in the later one. The outlet also reviewed sale records that traced how the club acquired property near the course over the years. Many houses around the Thackers’ place were bought and removed.

The Thackers had received offers for their property too. They kept turning them down. When Herman talked to the outlet in 2017, he explained that he and Elizabeth loved living there. After years of changes around them, they still wanted to stay in the house they called home.

A grandson who played professionally

Herman and Elizabeth raised their family in that house. One of their grandchildren, Scott Brown, was born in Augusta and went on to play professional golf. His start in the game came at Goshen Plantation, another course in Augusta. According to his PGA Tour profile, he was three years old when he started learning to play with his father. He went on to play in college at the University of South Carolina Aiken and turned professional in 2006.

Brown’s PGA Tour win came at the 2013 Puerto Rico Open. That was four years before the photo of his grandfather outside the house on Stanley Road. When GOLF.com visited during the Masters in 2017, it noted the connection between the two. The club next door was part of tournament week for the Thackers. Their grandson’s career gave Elizabeth someone from her own family to watch play.

Herman died in 2019, after he and Elizabeth had been married for 64 years. Elizabeth died in July 2025 at 93. In her obituary, her family remembered how carefully she looked after her yard. They also remembered that she liked watching Scott play and looked forward to the Masters every year. The house had become familiar to some people as a landmark near the tournament. The yard and the golf were also part of the life her family remembered.