#13 at Augusta National is NOT a strategic golf hole....if 2 options exist on a tee shot, and nobody ever attempts one of those options, that shot presents ZERO strategic choice.
Well, I beg to differ.
Which options are you talking about? The option of driver vs. some other club (like, Goosen's famous iron on the final round two years ago)?
Or the option of where to place one's drive? Surely "options" includes placement as well.
The standard play is essentially bail out right with a driver, giving yourself a long second off an unevent lie into a green sloping towards Rae's Creek, which is perpindicular to your shot. See: Tiger, every Masters he's played.
The gutsy play is driver down the left side of the fairway, flirting with the creek, to give yourself the best lie on that fairway (really, the only flat lie on that fairway), and -- doubling your reward for flirting with the creek -- a much more open shot into the green, in which Rae's Creek runs away from the player, and the green provides a much better target (remember the green is much wider than it is deep, so coming in from the extreme left side of the fairway opens up the approach). See: Jack, back nine, final round, '86. (Ever see Tiger flirt with the creek on the left side of the fairway on the final round when he's in contention? Me neither...)
The short-hitter's way is to simply play a safe drive/fairway wood out into the fairway (still 50 yards wide?), lay up to your best wedge distance, and pitch-and-putt your way to a birdie (hopefull). See: Zach Johnson, '07 Masters. Worked for him.