I'd been applying for decades with no luck in getting drawn. I decided if I wanted to attend the Masters, I needed to take the initiative. My wife and I attended for 4 days the first time, then Sat-Sun the 2nd time. Bought our tickets on Go tickets dot com, with no issues. The patron badges weren't cheap but if this is on your bucket list, that is priceless. BTW, we had to return the patron badges or get charged $1500.00 on our CC. I took pics of them and have them hanging with the pin flags.
Gotickets is no longer active, but replaced by seat geek.com.
I have a buddy that applied for tickets to the Masters and got drawn the very first year he applied. How lucky is that?