The Masters Tournament, Augusta, Georgia 2024
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09-04-2024 11:18am#1
Leading Contenders:
Scheffler, Rahm, RMcI, Koepka, Clark, Schauffele, Niemann, Hovland, Cantlay, Spieth, Zalatoris, Aberg, Matsuyama, C Smith, Johnson
Best of the Rest:
JThomas, Finau, CYoung, Morikawa, Lowry, Fitzpatrick, Harman
TV:
Featured group coverage will begin at 2pm on Thursday, with full coverage from 7.30pm.
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It's an absurd tournament because of Augusta’s history of racism and sexism and even the location. NBC commentator Bob Costas described it as the equivalent of "the French locating the Eiffel Tower in the middle of a trailer park".
Weather looks a bit windy (gusting 30 mph) and wet on Thurs and Fri.
Lowry will be rubbing his hands. Would love to see Shane add another Major. Esp here at Augusta. Think he’ll be in contention but could fade again on the final day. He’s making too many mistakes when chipping and putting in final round’s. Can’t make those at Augusta.
Hard to see past Scheffler but I think Matsuyama and maybe Keopka will also be in the mix come the back 9 on Sunday.
Is there a more intriguing back 9 in modern Golf than Augusta?
10th – Camellia – 495 yards, par 4
Over the 88 years of the Masters this is the most difficult hole.
Harrington - Every year players check the 10th green e.g. will it run all the way back down the hill or will it come to rest after 4-5 yards.
"Play down the right-hand side of 10 and you've a bunker front right and you're coming across a severely sloping green.”
The creek was named after property 'owner' John Rae, who emigrated from Ballynahinch in either 1729 or 1730 and was granted large swathes of land where he built Rae’s Hall. He lived just southeast of the creek's confluence with the Savannah River.
Rae owned some 8,000 acres and was a slave owning murderer. Pardoned in 1771 of the ‘manslaughter’ of Savannah native Ann Simpson due to his "unblemished character" and contribution to local politics.
11th – White Dogwood – 520 yards, par 4
Toughest hole over the recent years.
12th – Golden Bell – 155 yards, par 3
Another one of the toughest holes. Infamous Rae’s creek
Larry Mize - "If that hole doesn’t get your heart in your throat, nothing will."
13th – Azalea – 545 yards, par 5
One of the easier holes over the years. So they pushed the tee back 35 yards last year!
14th – Chinese Fir – 440 yards, par 4
Three-putts are common on the wickedly difficult green. Although Sunday pin position is easier as it’s in a bowl.
15th – Firethorn – 550 yards, par 5
One of the great holes in golf. Often a tough decision whether to go for the green in two across the pond. And they pushed the tee back 20 yards two years ago. The left hand pin on Sunday is nasty. Probably the toughest pin on the back 9.
Harrington - "I hit as good a drive as I could and a great 2nd straight down the pin. It was in the water!"
16th – Redbud – 170 yards, par 3
Harrington - "Hit a good shot ….. and took bogey off that. That's the Masters."
17th – Nandina – 440 yards, par 4
So what was the most difficult 'Sunday' putt on the course? Harrington - "Without doubt the 17th, when the pin is back right," "For a start, the green is one of the toughest on the course, and that particular pin is absolute murder. Two yards right of it and you're off the green; five yards past and you're off the back and in dire trouble."
"Miss it left and, relative to how it looks, you're faced with the hardest putt in golf. Almost impossible to get close. The margin of error is very, very tight."
18th – Holly – 465 yards, par 4
The narrow chute out of which you drive is quite deceptive as the fairway is pretty wide, providing you avoid the trees on the right and the famous Sandy Lyle bunker left. An uphill approach to the green can get a favourable kick off a front right hump. Long or left is dead.
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