Apr 6, 2020
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Sever PietruszkiewiczESPN.com
- Senior editor for faculty basketball
- Joined ESPN in 2008
- Graduate of the College of Maryland
Editor’s gift: This was before the entirety printed on April 4, 2019. All statistics were up as much as now to think motion from the 2019 Masters Tournament, won by Tiger Woods.
This week, as they’re every spring, the visuals from Augusta Nationwide and the Masters would were in every single location.
Amen Nook. Magnolia Lane. Azaleas and dogwoods. Inexperienced jackets.
But the coronavirus pandemic that has halted the sector, and shut down sports activities, forced the postponement of the 2020 Masters in Augusta, Georgia.
It does not mean we won’t, in our tips’s stare, silent toddle the fairways, glance across Hogan’s Bridge, be aware the placement’s elegance and its say and wait for the day when the gates birth and Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player slap the ceremonial first tee shots down the opening fairway.
Be taught the formulation to peep classic Masters protection this week on ESPN
So, with the help of some previous Masters champions, we offer the last hole-by-hole get out about at Augusta Nationwide:
Soar to a hole:
No. 1 | No. 2 | No. 3 | No. 4
No. 5 | No. 6 | No. 7 | No. 8
No. 9 | No. 10 | No. 11 | No. 12
No. 13 | No. 14 | No. 15 | No. 16 | No. 17 | No. 18
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Secrets from previous Masters champions, as educated to Michael Collins
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Historical previous of each hole compiled by ESPN Stats & Recordsdata
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Cheat sheet: In instruct, three hardest holes: No. 10, No. 11, No. 4; Three top holes: No. 15, No. 13, No. 2
No. 1: Par 4, 445 Yards
The lovely people at Augusta Nationwide terminate now not enable a participant to ease into their Masters expertise. Correct what you desire before the entirety, with your nerves silent jangling after your title is announced — a slim tee shot with worry supreme and left. The foremost hole accomplished no worse than fifth hardest in last one year’s Masters, and it truly was the hardest hole on the golf route within the third round in 2018. Intention: Manufacture par, deep breath, circulate on.
Tiger Woods’ secret to No. 1
“If [the wind] is now not blowing, or now not it’s now not that onerous a hole. It be a 3-wooden within the occasion that they circulate the tee up or or now not it’s a minimize-driver down there. When the wind is blowing, even if, if or now not it’s popping out of the west or the north, that is one the hardest opening holes, on myth of that inexperienced is now not designed for a 6-iron or a 5-iron. It will get upsetting. … While you happen to are able to play the outlet in 16 [total strokes] that which you would possibly need picked up somewhat plenty on the discipline.”
Changes to ‘Tea Olive’
• 2002: Tees moved reduction 20 to 25 yards. Fairway bunker reshaped and prolonged 10 to 15 yards towards the inexperienced. Portion of fairway landing dwelling regraded.
• 2006: Tees moved reduction 15 to 20 yards. Trees added to the left aspect of the fairway.
• 2008: Ten yards added to front of the tees. Abet of tees reduced to ease patron circulation.
• 2009: Abet of tee reduced 8 yards. Tee marker relocated and Masters scorecard modified to 445 yards.
• 2010: Snarl striking inexperienced within the help of first tee reduced by 20 percent to beef up patron poke along with the circulation.
No. 2: Par 5, 575 Yards
There were 83 bogeys or worse on the major hole within the shatter one year’s Masters. No. 2 is the likelihood to provide up for it. It is never accomplished at even par or worse; the supreme moderate get for the week was 4.996 in 1957. On Sunday, when the outlet is minimize reduction supreme, peep shots funnel down the hill towards the pin and give these in pursuit of the lead a likelihood at both an early eagle and the major roars of the day from the customers. What is now not as noticeable on No. 2? Correct how powerful of an elevation tumble (first hill reference!) it’s far from the 2d shot the total manner to the inexperienced.
Zach Johnson’s secret to No. 2
“They key at No. 2 is sweet getting your pressure in play, on myth of which you would possibly produce a [birdie] or [eagle] from the fairway. If there’s one other key, or now not it’s to omit, for the most fragment, moreover the help-supreme pin, is to remain supreme on your 2d shot. You would possibly moreover be within the fairway, that which you would possibly moreover be on the inexperienced, that which you would possibly moreover be within the bunker. Correct be supreme and you is inclined to be stunning and you is inclined to be eliminating the extensive number.”
Changes to ‘Crimson Dogwood’
• 1999: Tees moved reduction 20 to 25 yards. Fairway bunker shifted to the supreme.
• 2010: Front of inexperienced widened roughly eight toes.
No. 3: Par 4, 350 Yards
The extensive decision right here comes on the tee: Scoot extensive or play for situation? At most effective 350 yards, the extensive hitters can produce a poke on the inexperienced — or now not decrease than procure resplendent shut. That leaves a elaborate pitch to a slim, severely sloped inexperienced. A more conservative tee shot leaves a burly shot and the likelihood to regulate the jog. Choices, choices.
Zach Johnson’s secret to No. 3
“It be fundamental to take hang of the put the pin is off the tee. In step with the put the pin is will resolve what you are hitting off the tee box. It’ll be a 5-iron. It’ll be a driver. Correct depends on the the put the pin is and the diagram in which the greens are conserving.”
Changes to ‘Flowering Peach’
• None since 1996
No. 4: Par 3, 240 Yards
Immediate par 4 presents manner to fundamental, extensive par 3. Particular, or now not it’s fairly of downhill, however it’ll bask in a long iron and serious accuracy to flee the two front traps and bask in the ball withhold the inexperienced that is slim at its entry level within the front and sloped away from the participant because it heads to the help. Par is correct. Bogeys can happen resplendent with out problems and, successfully, the dreaded “others” are in play too.
Adam Scott’s secret to No. 4
“Hitting a 2 or 3 iron in there, you produce now not bask in a ramification of wiggle room. It be became more tense over time on myth of or now not it’s getting goodbye. If there’s any wind, which you would possibly now not feel it on the tee box, and the ball will get 150 yards out and will get killed by wind. With out joking, I’ve practical laying up when it’s far so windy. If I produce a 4 there, I’m able to get better from that in a tournament.”
Changes to ‘Flowering Crab Apple’
• 2006: Tees moved reduction 30 to 35 yards
No. 5: Par 4, 495 Yards
The inexperienced jackets had been laborious at work right here between the dwell of the 2018 Masters and the birth of he 2019 model. Already a long par 4, this one was bulked up by 40 yards, stretching out because the 2d-longest par 4 on the route. (No. 11 is the longest, at 505 yards. But now not decrease than that one goes downhill on the 2d shot.) The two bunkers up the left aspect on No. 5 location a top price on accuracy from the tee.
Tiger Woods’ secret to No. 5
“It be supreme long. The bunkers are silent deep. I mediate they’re unplayable to procure to the ball to the inexperienced. Try to be very lucky and procure a situtation that that which you would possibly very successfully get a diagram to procure to the front fringe of the inexperienced, however you supreme must dwell out of these bunkers. But it completely is fundamentally long. “
Changes to ‘Magnolia’
• 2003: Tees moved reduction. Fairway bunkers prolonged roughly 80 yards, towards the inexperienced. Fairway and bunkers shifted to the supreme, increasing the dogleg. With the prolonged dogleg and circulation of the tee, the outlet was remeasured to 455 yards.
• 2010: Seven yards added to the front of the tees. No change to the length of the outlet.
• 2018: Tees moved reduction 40 yards, pushing hole to 495 yards.
No. 6: Par 3, 180 Yards
Maybe now not as is named the opposite par 3s on the route — especially as compared to the two on the 2d nine — this one is a hidden gem. Why? First, its space: It’ll very successfully be the simplest viewing location on the property. While you happen to location your inexperienced Masters chair midway down the hill from the elevated tee, which you would possibly ogle the sixth inexperienced, the total par-3 16th and the 2d shots into the game-altering par 5 15th. The inexperienced at No. 6 is the downside, with two tiers that would possibly possibly well motive all kinds of worry. How powerful real estate terminate you will must work with when the pin is on the tip shelf? We are going to let Adam Scott protest.
Adam Scott’s secret to No. 6
“It be an titillating hole. It be so downhill, after which they always bask in two pins on the tip supreme. It be cherish making an try to land it on the hood of a automotive, with out a doubt, from 175 or 180. There’s not always with out a doubt a correct location to omit it. It be a kind of ones the put you are more or less forced into hitting a gigantic shot.”
Changes to ‘Juniper’
• 2012: Masters and members tees linked to fabricate a single teeing ground.
No. 7: Par 4, 450 Yards
Peep on the adjustments below: This hole has had some length added over the last 17 years. Do away with into consideration this: In 2001, it accomplished to a median of 3.986, the lowest of any Masters. The following one year, the adjustments started. Now, at 450 yards, the 2d shot correct into a inexperienced surrounded by 5 bunkers is infinitely more troublesome than 2001. In actual fact, within the opening round a one year ago, this was the hardest hole on the route. The supreme ruin — the most effective ruin — for the avid gamers is when the pin is in front, since the inexperienced slopes reduction to front.
Sergio Garcia’s secret to No. 7
“It be extensive now. It be very, fundamental to hit a correct pressure. While you happen to hit a correct pressure, that which you would possibly need a with out a doubt correct possibility to provide birdie. While you happen to provide now not pressure it successfully, or now not it’s a fight to provide par.”
Changes to ‘Pampas’
• 2002: Tees moved reduction 40 to 45 yards. Portion of fairway landing dwelling regraded.
• 2006: Tees moved reduction 35 to 40 yards. Inexperienced re-grassed to make which which you would possibly mediate of fine-rear pin situation. Trees added to the supreme and left facets of the fairway.
• 2008: Six toes added to the left of the inexperienced. Left-rear bunker moved reduction.
• 2009: Extra 10 yards added to the front of the Masters tees. No change in length of the outlet.
No. 8: Par 5, 570 Yards
For folks who were tuning in to the Masters for years and years, right here’s the put the familiarity kicks in — the bunker on the supreme off the tee, the mounds that influence the 2d shot, the long slim inexperienced. Even though viewers can repeat or now not it’s uphill, supreme how powerful the participant climbs is deceiving. Gaze closely when avid gamers are giving the inexperienced a poke in two. Assuredly they will lose their steadiness on the apply-through.
Sergio Garcia’s secret to No. 8
“While you happen to take care of to hit a correct pressure, then there are a pair spots to blueprint at that would possibly possibly well procure you to the inexperienced, on myth of right here’s a blind 2d shot. It be tense to belief it usually whereas which you would possibly now not ogle the put the ball is landing. If the pin is on the supreme aspect and you hit it supreme of the inexperienced, the birdie likelihood is sort of all however long gone. While you happen to take care of to hit a correct 2d shot, which you would possibly produce an eagle. But whenever you are even fairly of off, you are going to fight to provide a birdie.”
Changes to ‘Yellow Jasmine’
• 2002: Tees moved reduction 15 to 20 yards and shifted to golfer’s supreme by 10 yards. Reshaped and nearly about doubled the size of the fairway bunker.
No. 9: Par 4, 460 Yards
Unsuitable cliché time: The Masters does not birth ’til the help nine on Sunday. Unsuitable, it starts on the 2d shot into No. 9. One more hole whereby television cameras terminate now not terminate justice to the elevation change from 2d shot to inexperienced and the slope in front of the inexperienced. (Hi there, you had been warned the hills had been going to be a theme.) Scoot away that 2d shot supreme fairly of short and this would possibly occasionally roll reduction down. Steal this in tips: Greg Norman was even through eight holes on that dreaded Sunday in 1996. He didn’t raise his 2d shot far ample on No. 9, it rolled reduction off the inexperienced, and the cave in was in burly swing.
Sergio Garcia’s secret to No. 9
“The 2d shot is the supreme thing. It be a elaborate inexperienced. You would possibly very successfully be in general hitting from a downslope to an elevated inexperienced, which is never an effortless thing. It be a inexperienced that is kind of sideways, angled from supreme to left. Your distance regulate on your 2d shot has to be location-on. While you happen to would possibly possibly well very successfully be on the atrocious plateau, that which you would possibly very successfully be going to bask in a treacherous putt. For me, the hardest pin is fundamentally the help-left one, since the plateau is so runt.”
Changes to ‘Carolina Cherry’
• 2002: Tees moved reduction 25 to 30 yards.
• 2008: Stunning hole space softened on first and middle plateau.
No. 10: Par 4, 495 Yards
The 10th has equipped drama over time — from Bubba Watson’s procure away from the timber down the supreme aspect to Rory McIlroy’s misadventures plan the cabins on the left aspect. No hole has accomplished more complicated in Masters historical previous, with its 4.31 stroke moderate the supreme with regards to par. The visible is clear: It be a steep downhill dogleg left. Win the slope within the fairway and the tee shot will hit the runway and procure heaps more yardage. Cross over the runway and the participant has a long, long manner dwelling on his 2d shot. The laborious-sloping supreme-to-left inexperienced is protected by a bunker supreme and a mountainous slope to the left. Manufacture par. Breathe deep. Switch on.
Bubba Watson’s secret to No. 10
“With out reference to the put the pin is, hit it within the center of the inexperienced. You’ll need center of the inexperienced. If anyone hits it shut, or now not it’s purchased to be the most titillating wind, the most titillating number. When the pin is on the supreme, you completely produce now not desire to flirt with that bunker. It be complicated going reduction towards the creek, on myth of that which you would possibly very successfully be striking up the hill, however or now not it’s as rapidly as would possibly possibly well moreover be.”
Changes to ‘Camellia’
• 2002: Tees moved reduction 5 to 10 yards and to the golfer’s left by 5 yards.
• 2011: Fairway landing zone sand-capped, which is intended to beef up growing and playing prerequisites.
No. 11: Par 4, 505 Yards
Welcome to the beginning of Amen Nook. The stroll the total reduction to tee would possibly possibly well moreover be intimidating, on myth of what the avid gamers are staring at is so slim. Particular, the fairway opens up some within the shatter, however that doesn’t mean things procure less complicated. The 2d shot, from atop the hill, has to element within the elevation, the wind and that menacing miniature pond supreme left of the inexperienced. The avid gamers can bail out supreme, and hope to procure up and down for par — or strive to recreate a 1987 Larry Mize chip-in miracle. While No. 10 is historically the most complicated hole at Augusta Nationwide, No. 11 accomplished the hardest in 2018 — yielding supreme 13 birdies and playing to a 4.40 stroke moderate.
Bubba Watson’s secret to No. 11
“It appears cherish you speak this about every hole there — hit the fairway. You would possibly very successfully be going to bask in a long iron, so this one is set landing it on the front of the inexperienced. You making a birdie on 11 is making an eagle on a par 5. It be supreme a kind of things that occurs and you will very successfully be cherish, ‘Oh, my gosh, I purchased lucky.’ The front pin or the pin on the supreme, that which you would possibly need a shot at making birdies. But the help pins, hit the center of the inexperienced and you will very successfully be going to must two-putt from 40 or 50 toes. You are making an try to provide pars and procure out of there.”
Changes to ‘White Dogwood’
• 1999: Inexperienced, pond and bunker advanced adjusted.
• 2002: Tees moved reduction 30 to 35 yards and 5 yards to the golfer’s supreme. Portion of fairway landing dwelling regraded.
• 2004: Pine timber (36) added to the supreme of the fairway.
• 2006: Tees moved reduction 10 to 15 yards. Trees added to the supreme aspect of the fairway, and fairway shifted to the left.
• 2008: Several timber removed on supreme aspect of fairway, and fairway widened.
No. 12: Par 3, 155 Yards
Maybe the most famed par 3 on the earth: There’s the Hogan Bridge left of the inexperienced, Rae’s Creek in front, the azaleas and bunkers within the help of. The miniature par-3 would possibly possibly well moreover be as tricky because it’s far horny. The wind has accomplished tips video games with the avid gamers for a long time. Each person has a various principle — wait ’til you hear Bubba Watson’s description — on tips on how to gauge the jog funneling down to this secluded corner of the property. If the tee shot results in Rae’s Creek, the pitch across the water, to a slim inexperienced protected by an embankment that can funnel that shot reduction into the water, too … No. 12 has ended bigger than one dream of carrying the inexperienced jacket.
Bubba Watson’s secret to No. 12
“Hopefully, there’s no wind. That wind, they did evaluate on it and or now not it’s called the ‘eddy raise out,’ the put the wind quickens on myth of of the timber and the entirety. While you happen to procure a gust, it truly doubles the price, however you supreme produce now not understand it. For that reason you ogle balls reach up short and you will very successfully be cherish, ‘Did that man with out a doubt supreme misclub by two golf equipment?'”
Changes to ‘Golden Bell’
• None since 1996.
No. 13: Par 5, 510 Yards
For the avid gamers, this would possibly possibly well very successfully be the quietest fragment of the golf route. The patrons can’t procure anywhere plan this tee. A tributary of Rae’s Creek winds down the left aspect, with timber and pine straw up the supreme. Finally, that pine straw is the positioning of 1 in all indelible photography in Masters historical previous — Phil Mickelson hammering a 6-iron from it and through a slim opening within the timber within the course of the last round in 2010. His caddie, Jim “Bones” MacKay, tried to talk him out of it. Mickelson didn’t recoil, hit the shot to a few toes and went on to buy the Masters. If the tee shot and capacity must not complicated ample — be aware, the creek guards the front — the inexperienced can motive worry. When the pin is the total manner reduction, the avid gamers bask in a laborious time getting the ball onto the tricky shelf. If they poke long, or now not it’s a nearly about now not possible chip. When the pin is within the front, it brings the creek into play. A wonderfully struck shot, nonetheless, would possibly possibly well bask in the ridge within the inexperienced and funnel reduction to the pin. That is the last likelihood-reward hole.
Patrick Reed’s secret to No. 13
“First, which you would possibly now not hit it left within the water. Then which you would possibly now not hit it supreme, into the timber. After that, which you would possibly now not leave it short [of the green] within the water. It be fundamental to search out the fairway. The winds and the pins desire if or now not it’s a terribly getable birdie hole otherwise that which you would possibly very successfully be supreme hitting a wedge in there [on your third shot] and bask in a likelihood to provide birdie.”
Changes to ‘Azalea’
• 2002: Tees moved reduction 20 to 25 yards.
• 2010: Seven yards added to the front of the Masters tees with out necessitating a change in length to the outlet.
No. 14: Par 4, 440 Yards
There’s now not a bunker or ounce of water to be learned right here. The inexperienced, even if, is what makes this a downside. First, there’s a unfounded front that can shoot balls short reduction down the hill. What is less noticeable to the camera is the how laborious the inexperienced slopes supreme. Hit it to either aspect of the crest within the course of the inexperienced and peep the ball bask in off. If that is the put the pin is, gigantic. If now not, the participant is standing over a long, long two-putt.
Patrick Reed’s secret to No. 14
“Out of that 13-14-15 stretch, that is the one you will must play from the fairway on myth of of how long and sloping that inexperienced is. Try to be playing from the short grass so which which you would possibly regulate the iron shot. Even whenever you hit the fairway, whenever you produce now not hit the loyal iron shot and do aside it on the supreme tier, which you would possibly with out problems be searching at a 3-putt. On paper or whereas you get out about at a yardage e-book, you mediate right here’s nothing. Then presently, you procure on the inexperienced and you will very successfully be cherish, ‘Oh, man,’ on myth of of the unfounded front and the total tiers on that inexperienced.”
Changes to ‘Chinese language Fir’
• 2002: Tees moved reduction 30 to 35 yards.
No. 15: Par 5, 530 Yards
So powerful can happen right here. Eagles? Particular. Birdies? Continuously. Double-eagle? Yeah, Gene Sarazen knocked in his 2d shot in 1935. So, or now not it’s a gimme, an effortless par 5 to provide up some ground? Properly … Sergio Garcia made a 13 right here last one year, changing the 11s by Ben Crenshaw, Jumbo Ozaki and Ignacio Garrido because the supreme get on the outlet. A pressure that avoids the tree up the left aspect has the participant standing on the tip of the hill, staring down at one among golf’s gigantic amphitheaters. That is when the true choices — and worry — birth. The long, slim inexperienced is fronted by water, making it laborious to remain the 2d shot if the participant goes at it in two. But if a participant lays up — or has to tumble after rinsing the 2d shot — the wedge into the inexperienced turns into treacherous. Tear it supreme fairly of too powerful and it starts running reduction towards the front of the inexperienced — and retains rolling and rolling and rolling, down the shaved monetary institution and reduction into the water. And now, that which you would possibly very successfully be standing there faced with the the same shot again (or as in Garcia’s case, again and again again).
Patrick Reed’s secret to No. 15
“It be fundamental to hit the fairway on the supreme aspect, on myth of whenever you hit it down the left aspect, you will must lay up. Then that which you would possibly need a wedge shot — off a downslope, to an elevated inexperienced. That is complicated. Now, whenever you terminate poke for it [in two] and poke long, I’ve considered so many guys then chip it reduction and long and it goes within the water [in front of the green]. Next thing , that which you would possibly very successfully be losing. It be potentially the hardest par 5 on the golf route. It be the most penalizing one on the golf route. The wedge shot into 15 is so penalizing whenever you produce now not know your yardages, can’t regulate your jog, whenever that which you would possibly very successfully be now not making most titillating contact.”
Changes to ‘Firethorn’
• 1999: Fairway mounds reduced. Pine timber added to supreme and left aspect.
• 2006: Tees moved reduction 25 to 30 yards and shifted roughly 20 yards to the golfer’s left.
• 2009: Eight to nine yards added to front of Masters tees. No change to yardage.
No. 16: Par 3, 170 Yards
It be the positioning of Tiger’s “For your existence!” chip-in on the 2005 Masters, which moreover occurs to be when he last won a inexperienced jacket. Maybe the most important pin is that neatly-known reduction-left location, whereby shots supreme of the outlet will bask in the slope and funnel down towards the outlet. The trickiest pin, nonetheless, which makes the outlet play diagram more complicated, is the front-supreme space on top of the hill. That same ridge that helps the avid gamers when the pin is reduction supreme now hurts the avid gamers, throwing balls away from the outlet as a change of plan it.
Charl Schwartzel’s secret to No. 16
“In most cases, the Sunday flags are very accessible to provide birdies. You would possibly bask in gotten 20, 30 toes supreme of the flag — quite a extensive dwelling — and it feeds to the outlet. It be a correct opportunity to provide a birdie, presumably that which you would possibly very successfully be simplest opportunity rather then 15, whenever that which you would possibly very successfully be one reduction on Sunday and desire a birdie.”
Changes to ‘Redbud’
• None since 1996.
No. 17: Par 4, 440 Yards
Be taught Charl Schwartzel’s secret below. Sounds straightforward, supreme? Properly, he did birdie 15, 16, 17 and 18 on Sunday to buy his inexperienced jacket in 2011. Outlined by one among the most licensed timber in golf — the Eisenhower Tree, named after the 34th president of the United States, an Augusta member — underwent an sudden makeover when an ice storm damaged it in 2014 and compelled the removing of the tree. Immediate chronicle: The tree was named after Eisenhower on myth of he was known to hit it progressively, which resulted in his asking that or now not or now not it’s removed. Even though he was the president, Augusta Nationwide did now not honor his ask. There are potentialities to provide birdies at 15 and 16. And there would possibly be a shot to provide one on the closing hole. But 17 was the fifth-hardest hole within the 2018 Masters.
Charl Schwartzel’s secret to No. 17
“If the tee shot will not be always with out a doubt within the fairway, that which you would possibly very successfully be going to bask in a tricky time. While you happen to would possibly possibly well very successfully be within the fairway, which you would possibly produce a par or birdie.”
Changes to ‘Nandina’
• 1999: Tees moved reduction roughly 25 yards.
• 2006: Tees moved reduction 10 to 15 yards.
• 2014: Eisenhower Tree removed following ice storm.
No. 18: Par 4, 465 Yards
Undergo in tips the dialogue about elevation change? There’s presumably no more deceptively, but dramatically uphill hole than No. 18. It be a bask in-the-breath-out-of-you more or less uphill. At the inexperienced, searching over the total route, the scene lays out a most titillating stage to shut the one year’s first major. First, even if, attending to the inexperienced is a downside. There’s worry supreme (timber) and worry left (bunker) off the tee at this dogleg supreme par 4. It sounds as if, there moreover is one tree fairly of decrease than 200 yards from the tee that would motive a extensive downside. Jordan Spieth caught it on the last day a one year ago. His tee shot traveled supreme 177 yards, he made bogey and “settled” for 64. He hasn’t been the the same since. Sooner or later, there would possibly be the two-tiered inexperienced. When the pin is the total manner reduction, avid gamers bask in a laborious time convincing themselves to procure the ball the total manner to the outlet. When or now not it’s within the front, as this would possibly occasionally be on the last day, shots will funnel down the slope and towards the outlet. Certain, the placement is aware of tips on how to make drama.
Charl Schwartzel’s secret to No. 18
“While you happen to can supreme fireplace a driver off the bunkers, it leaves you with an 8-iron or 9-iron. Again, the Sunday flag, or now not it’s the most titillating flag, on myth of which you would possibly hit it previous the flag and it funnels reduction down the hill and you will in general bask in a 15-footer.”
Changes to ‘Holly’
• 2002: Tees moved reduction 55 to 60 yards and to the golfer’s supreme 5 yards. Bunker advanced adjusted, making bunkers roughly 10 percent bigger. Trees added left of fairway bunkers.