Which course is yesterdays news....is it time to move the Masters...

Since this is pure fantasy, one would hope, if it did happen, it would send a strong signal to those who want to disfigure their lay-outs?

The Masters is ANGC and a large part of ANGC is the Masters. If some castrophe happened and ANGC was no more I'd hope the Masters tournament would be no more too if ANGC was not recreated. What if Paris was no more should they recreate the Eiffel Tower in some other city? Don't anwser that Kelly Blake Moran!  

If some castrophe took out ANGC the proper thing to do would be to get Coore & Crenshaw to recreate ANGC using the exact plans of MacKenzie and Jones. Only this time the club could pay the grand-niece of Alister Mackenzie what the club owes MacKenzie for the first course!

I believe Brad's article was if something happened a couple of weeks out from the event, not totally destroying the course but making it unplayable that year, where would it go.  One thing that our Director of Golf, Roger Warren (soon to be President of the PGA of America) is keen on is making sure that The Ocean Course remains in tournament condition 365 days of the year.  The only thing we would have to do is mow down the greens to get them rolling a bit faster (we can mow the paspalum to 1/10 of an inch!).  I would also suggest topdressing the fairways to get them stimping to around 8...

Seems sensible to evolve past "the masters".

Sand Hills would work but only if there were no spectators allowed.  To make-up for the lost revenue since there wont be a tent to sell us over-priced garb...

I hate saying this but... Pay per view match play. Covered by a silently hovering  grayhawk or predator drones, combined with a zillion of those mini cams, spread throughout the grounds. Ya know the ones that let us see the players cards in Texas Hold-em.

There'd have to be at least a million people who'd pay $50 to watch the 32 person specially invited field, battle it out, over 5 days.

All we need is for the geroge herbert walker bush's of this world, to use their influence, to make it happen. But if that were gonna happen, do you think Yale would be Yale, still?

ANGC really doesn't need spectators anymore. They've been using things like "virtual flowers" and "virtual ultra Green grass" and "virtual blue pond water" for years anyway so with their money they've developed a plan to use "virtual spectators" complete with a master rheostat to ratchet up and down the roar of the crowd through the pines depending on the significance of the shot being played! I've even heard they're thinking of allowing some guy called Barney from the Midwest somewhere to control that "crowd roar" rheostat!

Wouldn't Sand Hills need to be toughened up to create the excitement we see at the Masters year after year......Does someone finally need to ask the hard question...."Does Crenshaw have the heart to build a real championship course...is he just too nice a guy.."

I believe there is only one course in America that could host the Masters in place of Augusta - Shinnecock Hills.

It is the masterpiece of American links golf & arguably the finest course in the world. The course would be prepared in-house and so the course set-up would reflect true shot-making and actual course strategy. If it was moved to May the flowers on Long island would be very much in bloom, and the best reason of all for moving it there - it would keep it from ever hosting another U.S. Open!

Tim,

You don't really believe the game could continue without championships of the highest level....You just got to see who gets the ball in the hole in the fewest strokes to make this game worth the effort.....The game would fall like the Berlin Wall without competition to promote growth of skill...I do hope professional Hockey never comes back as that would be a great experiment to see how the rest of the sport survives..

I remember reading the article mentioned above and I believe that a number of "replacement" sites were mentioned as a result of suggestions from people other than Brad, like Jack Nicklaus and such.  I don't remember all of the options outlined, but they included the likes of Seminole, Peachtree, whatever the local Augusta Muni is called and the ANGC Par 3 course.  Jack, I believe, said that there could be no Masters without the course, so there could be no replacement.

Keith.

You boys don't  really believe we would ever let the Masters cross the state line, do you? They could just hop the fence and go play it at Augusta CC, but since there is no reciprocity, the ACC members would tell them to go to hell I would hope. So then they would have to venture up to Peachtree where most of the ANGC members who really count are also members.

For my money, I'd move it to Pine Valley (of course, PV could be held up with frost delays in the spring when the Masters should be played.)

If PV isn't the world's best course, I don't know what is.

And, yes, you would have to significantly limit the number of 'patrons'...

JB -

I believe PV's greens can be made fast enough to entertain the PGA tour player. The green complexes are fine and the new length certainly helps. While it is not the longest course in the world, the greens would hold up fine.