[Emile Bonfiglio]

What are the chances that the Minimalist trend catches on enough that someday Augusta National decides to go back to way it looked in the Jones/MacKenzie days. Im referring more to the bunkering, not the lack of lavish foliage. I could only see Crenshaw getting the nod to do this.

So your options are:
A- not likely
B- not a chance in hell
C- only when Martha Burke becomes chairman

[Sam Morrow]

Never say never but I wouldn't bet on it.

[Tom_Doak]

Minimalism is not about the look of the bunkering.

[jeffwarne]

What are the chances that the Minimalist trend catches on enough that someday Augusta National decides to go back to way it looked in the Jones/MacKenzie days. Im referring more to the bunkering, not the lack of lavish foliage. I could only see Crenshaw getting the nod to do this.

So your options are:
A- not likely
B- not a chance in hell
C- only when Martha Burke becomes chairman

Regarding the "lavish" foliage.....
prior to being ANGC, the site was a world renowned............ wait for it............
nursery,

[Anthony Gray]

  That is not a golf course it's a museum.

  Anthony

[Michael George]

Unfortunately, I think that ship has sailed.  Augusta's bunkering is far from its original design based on the pictures that I have seen.

Here is a quote from Robert Hunter's The Links (as we all know Hunter and Mackenzie designed together):

"The should have the appearance of being made with carelessness and abandon with which a brook tears down the banks which confine it, or the wind tosses about the sand of the dunes ... forming depressions or elevations broken into irregular lines.  Here the bank overhangs, where there it has crumbled away"

Certainly does not describe any bunker at Augusta except the one in the middle of the fairway on #10.

[Jeff_Brauer]

For the most part, isn't ANGC a pretty minimalist course in its design, if not maintenance?  Only 30 bunkers?  Defend par at the green?  I am a bit sad at the tree additions over the last five years, but even so, its still conceptually a minimalist golf course design.......

[PCCraig]

"B" on the bunkers ever getting a "rougher" look.

[Brent Hutto]

Minimalism is not about the look of the bunkering.

Although sometimes it seems that Golf Club Atlas is, alas.

[Sven Nilsen]

The Masters has become as much a harbinger of spring time as the ground hog.  Because of this, it will always be presented as green as possible, with as many shots of flowers as they can cram in and with the birds chirping in the back ground behind the announcer's discussion of the wonder of the majesty of it all.

[Emile Bonfiglio]

Minimalism is not about the look of the bunkering.

I thought it was the only place where ANGC might give, I don't see them going firm and fast in the fairways ever, even though I'm down with the brown.

[Greg Clark]

Isn't the "greeness" at Augusta more about the type of grass than the amount of water or maintenance program?  Rye grass, especially during the spring, has such a deep rich green color to it that many don't seem to take into account.  Obviously the Augusta area gets its fair share of rain during the spring and as a result the course can play soft during the tournament, but lacking those rains, the course seems to play pretty firm during The Masters.

[Sean Leary]

Emile,

You need a different dictionary for the term minimalism, my friend;)

I think they do want it firm and fast for the Masters. Spring weather doesn't always abide.

[Steve_ Shaffer]

If you return to the '30s,you lose RTJ's 16th hole that replaced a bland,IMO, one shoter.

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