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How did you enjoy the bloodbath that is holes 1-6? Everyone still having a good time? Good. Cause the green complexes get a little more difficult from here on out.
Hole 7: Pampas. 450yds tournament, 330yds member
Yeah, quality is trash on that one. No one has a good photo that I can actually use of the green complex. Anyway, for the professional, this is a tricky tee shot as it's a pretty narrow fairway that requires a very straight and long tee shot. Miss a little left or right, you could have tree trouble. Once the trouble of the tee shot ends, then you have your approach shot into an uphill green where spin control is absurdly critical. Given the Sunday pin placement being in that bowl, you have a multitude of options to really wreck your score. You can put it short sided into the bunkers and hope you can spin it enough to use the slope to bring it back to the hole, yet keep it on the green, you can hit it on top of the ridge and well, bless your heart. Or, you can play the perfect second shot that gives you both enough distance control to hit your number, and enough spin control to have the slope help you instead of harm you. Good luck!
Masters Moment: Years before the idea of lengthening courses to increase their difficulty or "Tiger-proofing" took hold with Woods' dominance, Byron Nelson shattered course expectations when he drove the green on the par-4 No. 7 in 1937. Nelson would go on to birdie the hole, win the tournament. The next year, Augusta moved the green 20 yards back and surrounded it with bunkers to prevent Nelson from getting another shot at an easy birdie.
Hole 8: Yellow Jasmine. 570yds professional, 480yds member.
As much fun as hole 2 was going down the hill, this hole is the opposite. It's basically all up hill. From the back of this teebox, it's 268 uphill to the front of this teebox, and 315 to fly it. 8yds of uphill just on the teebox, so it's going to take a mammoth drive to fly it. Don't have that in the bag? Plenty of room short, and make it a true three shot par 5. Want to be sorta aggressive sorta not? Try and put it between the left side of the fairway and bunker. It's about 30 yards wide at its largest, so it's not impossible. The hard decision is whether to lay up to a full wedge, get it as far as you can down the fairway for a flip wedge shot, or try and go for it in two. From the bunker complex, it's 50 feet uphill. Going for it in two is essentially telling yourself you can hit a shot far enough and high enough that it can land and stay on the roof of a building over 4.6 stories tall, or you know that the closer you can get to it, the better odds you have of making a solid up and down for birdie, or a good enough par. In 2019, it averaged towards the bottom sixth as easiest holes on the course every day. Sunday's back center pin produced 1 eagle, 29 birdies, 32 pars, and 3 bogeys.
Masters Moments: Because it's a par 5, I have to go with Double Eagles since that is an absurdly impressive shot on this par 5. There has been 1 in history, and it was back in 1967 by Bruce Devlin.
Devlin hit a 4-wood for his second shot from 248 yards, and watched it roll in, calling it a "perfect golf shot."
"It hit on the front of the green, rolled right around the corner and went right in the hole. I could understand it if the flag was in the middle of the green, but it’s almost impossible to get a wedge up there."
Hole 9: Carolina Cherry. 460yds tournament, 395yds members
For the professionals, this is one of those looks can be deceiving things. That tee shot through the trees looks tight. It is to an extent, but your ball is way over that pinch of trees by the time it's there. A 50ft drop from tee to fairway then leads to the one of the most precision filled shots on the entire course. A 30ft uphill second shot into a three tiered green where your distance control may be arguably the most tested on this very shot. With the 2019 pin placement, anything hole high and right of the pin is the safe shot. The putt won't be too bad, and you're probably not gonna putt it off the green. If you feel the need to get aggressive, you'll bring the risk of too long into play and have to contend with a green speed that may be near impossible to keep it on the green, or you'll spin it too much and bring it down the false front and find yourself at the mercy of how far down the slope your ball will roll.
A look at the yardage book below can give you some idea of what the professional is looking at. While this is from 2017, so the safe place to putt from is actually flipped from where it is in 2019, the green slopes are not. The longer the line, the more severe the angle of slope to content with.
Masters moments: This one is pure bias, admittedly. This hole has had birdies that mounted the charge to the infamous second nine birdie runs, and bogeys that have brought many a competitor's wheels off going into the thick of things come Sunday afternoon. I've been saving my Tiger Woods Masters moments, but I think I'm gonna use it here, from 2019. Using the same green yardage book with a little 2019 updating, the black dot is in the "artist's rendition" of where the pin was located. The beginning of the red line is where Tiger had to putt from. I know it's not flashy, it doesn't involve some crazy holeout for eagle or a miraculous chip in, but it shows an absurd amount of touch and control. How it didn't stop on one ridge, or gather too much speed and run off the front of the green, I still have no idea. It may IMO be right up there with one of the best shots he's ever hit on property, and it didn't even go in.
How did you enjoy the bloodbath that is holes 1-6? Everyone still having a good time? Good. Cause the green complexes get a little more difficult from here on out.
Hole 7: Pampas. 450yds tournament, 330yds member
Yeah, quality is trash on that one. No one has a good photo that I can actually use of the green complex. Anyway, for the professional, this is a tricky tee shot as it's a pretty narrow fairway that requires a very straight and long tee shot. Miss a little left or right, you could have tree trouble. Once the trouble of the tee shot ends, then you have your approach shot into an uphill green where spin control is absurdly critical. Given the Sunday pin placement being in that bowl, you have a multitude of options to really wreck your score. You can put it short sided into the bunkers and hope you can spin it enough to use the slope to bring it back to the hole, yet keep it on the green, you can hit it on top of the ridge and well, bless your heart. Or, you can play the perfect second shot that gives you both enough distance control to hit your number, and enough spin control to have the slope help you instead of harm you. Good luck!
Masters Moment: Years before the idea of lengthening courses to increase their difficulty or "Tiger-proofing" took hold with Woods' dominance, Byron Nelson shattered course expectations when he drove the green on the par-4 No. 7 in 1937. Nelson would go on to birdie the hole, win the tournament. The next year, Augusta moved the green 20 yards back and surrounded it with bunkers to prevent Nelson from getting another shot at an easy birdie.
Hole 8: Yellow Jasmine. 570yds professional, 480yds member.
As much fun as hole 2 was going down the hill, this hole is the opposite. It's basically all up hill. From the back of this teebox, it's 268 uphill to the front of this teebox, and 315 to fly it. 8yds of uphill just on the teebox, so it's going to take a mammoth drive to fly it. Don't have that in the bag? Plenty of room short, and make it a true three shot par 5. Want to be sorta aggressive sorta not? Try and put it between the left side of the fairway and bunker. It's about 30 yards wide at its largest, so it's not impossible. The hard decision is whether to lay up to a full wedge, get it as far as you can down the fairway for a flip wedge shot, or try and go for it in two. From the bunker complex, it's 50 feet uphill. Going for it in two is essentially telling yourself you can hit a shot far enough and high enough that it can land and stay on the roof of a building over 4.6 stories tall, or you know that the closer you can get to it, the better odds you have of making a solid up and down for birdie, or a good enough par. In 2019, it averaged towards the bottom sixth as easiest holes on the course every day. Sunday's back center pin produced 1 eagle, 29 birdies, 32 pars, and 3 bogeys.
Masters Moments: Because it's a par 5, I have to go with Double Eagles since that is an absurdly impressive shot on this par 5. There has been 1 in history, and it was back in 1967 by Bruce Devlin.
Devlin hit a 4-wood for his second shot from 248 yards, and watched it roll in, calling it a "perfect golf shot."
"It hit on the front of the green, rolled right around the corner and went right in the hole. I could understand it if the flag was in the middle of the green, but it’s almost impossible to get a wedge up there."
Hole 9: Carolina Cherry. 460yds tournament, 395yds members
For the professionals, this is one of those looks can be deceiving things. That tee shot through the trees looks tight. It is to an extent, but your ball is way over that pinch of trees by the time it's there. A 50ft drop from tee to fairway then leads to the one of the most precision filled shots on the entire course. A 30ft uphill second shot into a three tiered green where your distance control may be arguably the most tested on this very shot. With the 2019 pin placement, anything hole high and right of the pin is the safe shot. The putt won't be too bad, and you're probably not gonna putt it off the green. If you feel the need to get aggressive, you'll bring the risk of too long into play and have to contend with a green speed that may be near impossible to keep it on the green, or you'll spin it too much and bring it down the false front and find yourself at the mercy of how far down the slope your ball will roll.
A look at the yardage book below can give you some idea of what the professional is looking at. While this is from 2017, so the safe place to putt from is actually flipped from where it is in 2019, the green slopes are not. The longer the line, the more severe the angle of slope to content with.
Masters moments: This one is pure bias, admittedly. This hole has had birdies that mounted the charge to the infamous second nine birdie runs, and bogeys that have brought many a competitor's wheels off going into the thick of things come Sunday afternoon. I've been saving my Tiger Woods Masters moments, but I think I'm gonna use it here, from 2019. Using the same green yardage book with a little 2019 updating, the black dot is in the "artist's rendition" of where the pin was located. The beginning of the red line is where Tiger had to putt from. I know it's not flashy, it doesn't involve some crazy holeout for eagle or a miraculous chip in, but it shows an absurd amount of touch and control. How it didn't stop on one ridge, or gather too much speed and run off the front of the green, I still have no idea. It may IMO be right up there with one of the best shots he's ever hit on property, and it didn't even go in.
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