At the Masters, three of golf's greats weigh in on the sport's great (bifurcation) debate.
That happened here this year with No. 13, the par 5 in the Amen Corner area long the easiest on the course, including last year. Augusta National lengthened it by 45 yards for this year, using land it bought in 2017 from adjacent Augusta Country Club, after which it also rebuilt that club’s No. 8 and No. 9 holes. “There’s not many places you can go out and buy another golf course to put a tee,” Nicklaus said. “We’re going to run out of land [in general], run out of water.
By that, Watson meant how the sport might delineate between which ball the mighty professionals use and which everybody else uses. That brought Nicklaus back to “when we changed from the small ball to the large ball” and, he recalled, “Pretty soon, the average golfer said, ‘I want to play what the pros are playing.’ ” That would be a curious kind of choice in this instance and era.
The worry and the talk have been ongoing and ongoing and ongoing but seems to have reached a fresh peak of concern, summarized in March by R & A chief executive Martin Slumbers. “We’re of the view,” he said, “that at the elite male level, both amateur and professional, we’ve crossed the Rubicon with regards to where hitting distance is but, more importantly, where it is trending.
For a microcosm, there’s No. 13 here, expanded to 545 yards to defend against the present and future of human evolution. “It seems dramatic to us right now,” Tiger Woods said in his news conference Tuesday. “But if these guys keep getting longer, they keep getting taller and more athletic and keep hitting the ball further, that hole is going to play with a driver and a mid-iron.”Said Nicklaus, “I went back on the tee a couple of weeks ago and looked at it, and you know, I think you can probably still carry a few trees on the right side, and I don’t think you can carry all the trees.
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