“For the first time ever in golf we will capture virtually every shot of every player during every competitive round,” Augusta National chairman Fred Ridley said Wednesday.
One of the only knocks against the Masters tournament from golf fans has always been, quite simply, that there isn’t enough of it.
“This extensive library of content will be available on our website and apps through the leaderboard and track features.” The biggest change this year is the par-4 fifth hole, where the tee has been moved back, the fairway re-graded, and fairway bunkers moved. The green has been rebuilt and is slightly larger, providing new hole locations.“Every time they make a change, it seems like it’s been here for a hundred years,” Tiger Woods said.“I thought it was a hard hole before, they just made it a little bit tougher,” the world No. 2 said.
The most famous hole on the course is the 510-yard par-5 13th at the end of Amen Corner, but there has long been a debate whether it’s still the hole it once was in today’s power game. After all, Bubba Watson once hit a second-shot sand wedge onto the green, to set up an eagle chance. The debate intensified two years ago when news broke that the club had bought more land behind the tee.
Ridley also all but ruled out Augusta National switching to a special distance-limiting golf ball any time soon.
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