MacKenzie cited the seventh at Englands Stoke Poges Golf Club as its inspiration (a rather more obscure choice than earlier St. Andrews and North Berwick influences) and seemed generally to have liked the hole. Hole No. (The sand is largely comprised of quartz, a waste product of the feldspar mining process, which gives it that bright white coloration.) Alexander Gough (@alexlogangough) January 19, 2020. The 2022 Masters at Augusta National Bowles Construction, Inc. Remodeling Contractors. The description is an interesting one because while the initial ninth green did extend leftward above a large bunker, the putting surface itself was a classic MacKenzie boomerang, its two nearly symmetrical wings wrapped around the single, artistically shaped sand hazard. Beyond the architectural particulars inherent to individual holes, there are several broader conclusions which might reasonably be drawn when comparing Augusta National then and now. Thus the most logical question becomes not whether Augusta circa 1933 would be a better golf course than that in play today because with so many changes to both the purpose of the layout and the game in general, they have essentially become non-analogous beings. In assessing this, we must first acknowledge one very significant (and often overlooked) factor: the really substantive alterations that have taken place wholesale changes at the seventh, ninth, tenth, eleventh, sixteenth and seventeenth all occurred within the first two decades of the clubs history, and with the blessing (stated or implicit) of a still-very-much-alive Bobby Jones. Fazio has done work on all but four holes at the famous course co-designed by Alister MacKenzie and Bobby Jones. 18 HollyPar 41933: 420 yards2009: 465 yards. But regardless of such glaring stylistic differences, the substance of the hole remains among the least-altered at Augusta, particularly the putting surface which, save for some adjacent mounding added during the 1950s and 60s, has been little bothered. Augusta National's greens are the only hint of green on the entire property (except for the apparently overseeded tee box on No. That preps the ground to undergo an intensive ryegrass overseeding to get ready for member play in October, and that bright-green overseeded ryegrass is what comes roaring through your television screen every April.
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