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Carlyle Rood

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ANGC renovations
« on: September 16, 2005, 03:29:27 PM »
From the "Truth and Rumors" section of Sports Illustrated's website:

The bulldozers have disappeared and all the grass is finally back in place at Augusta National, where for the third time in four years there have been some major changes. The last part of the latest touch-up was the installation of bent grass on the seventh green, which has been slightly enlarged to allow for the possibility of a new pin placement at the right rear of the putting surface. The seventh also has new trees on the right side of the fairway, plus it's 40 yards longer now -- a mere 450-yard par four -- but that's not the longest hole in the six-hole transformation that has just been completed. That distinction belongs to the 11th hole, where the tee has been moved back 15 yards and now measures 505 yards, thus becoming the first 500-yard par-four hole on the course. The work began in June after the club closed and has been overseen by designer Tom Fazio.
-- Los Angeles Times

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Philippe Binette

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Re:ANGC renovations
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2005, 04:37:42 PM »
Adding trees on 7...

The fairway looks 20 yards wide...
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Darren_Kilfara

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Re:ANGC renovations
« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2005, 05:02:01 PM »
What's the over-under on how many years it is before ANGC drops out of the consensus Top 10 in the US? How about the over-under on how many years it is before they hold a US Open there?
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PThomas

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Re:ANGC renovations
« Reply #3 on: September 16, 2005, 05:05:25 PM »
maybe the former, but never the latter, Darren
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199 played, only Augusta National left to play!

Dan Herrmann

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Re:ANGC renovations
« Reply #4 on: September 16, 2005, 05:08:07 PM »
Will #4 even be playable from back there?   That's an awfully severe green for a shot of that length.

Won't #4's new tee location cut down on gallery space near #3 green too?
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Joel_Stewart

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Re:ANGC renovations
« Reply #5 on: September 16, 2005, 05:26:46 PM »
I would still like to challenge a certain editor who rates classical courses to place ANGC on the modern list.  
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Chris Moore

Re:ANGC renovations
« Reply #6 on: September 17, 2005, 04:10:33 PM »
How long before the tree-adding program seriously compromises the health of the turf?  ANGC is beginning to look like Sahalee.  Maybe the PGA will come knocking. ;D
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Bill_McBride

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Re:ANGC renovations
« Reply #7 on: September 17, 2005, 09:56:35 PM »
When will they move the 3rd tee back 100 yds so there will no longer be a short and strategic par 4 at Augusta National.  What a joke turning #7 into a 450 yd par 4!  :P
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Bill Gayne

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Re:ANGC renovations
« Reply #8 on: September 17, 2005, 10:07:17 PM »
Lots of critics of ANGC. The real culprit is the governing bodies of golf failure to regulate the technology changes. ANGC is only responding to the actions and inactions of others.

Given the state of the current professional game they are doing the best they can for the tournament while maintaining another set of tees that are very different for the membership.
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cary lichtenstein

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Re:ANGC renovations
« Reply #9 on: September 18, 2005, 04:27:21 AM »
I like hitting a drive and 4 iron into a par 4, heck, in past era's, Hogan hit a 1  or 2 iron into the 18th green at Merion.

It's a better test of golf. Augusta is returning to that concept.

So long as they keep the pins accessible like they did the last 2 years, the course has lost none of its excitement.
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Live Jupiter, Fl, was  4 handicap, played top 100 US, top 75 World. Great memories, no longer play, 4 back surgeries. I don't miss a lot of things about golf, life is simpler with out it. I miss my 60 degree wedge shots, don't miss nasty weather, icing, back spasms. Last course I played was Augusta

Brian_Ewen

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Re:ANGC renovations
« Reply #10 on: September 18, 2005, 06:21:34 AM »
Guys
There is an article in this months UK version of Golf World , about the changes , along with some aerial photos .

The full list of changes are listed as :

 1st. - Tee moved back 20 yards . Trees added to left of fairway . New length 455 yards.

 4th. - Tee moved back 35 yards . New length 240 yards.

 7th. - Tee moved back 40 yards . Green re-grassed . Trees added to both sides of the fairway . New length 450 yards.

11th. - Tee moved back 15 yards . Trees added to right side of fairway. Fairway shifted to the left . New length 505 yards.

15th. - Tee moved back 30 yards and left by 20 yards. New length 530 yards.

17th. - Tee moved 15 yards . New length 440 yards.
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