Kenny Perry: "For my money, I would change the 13th and 15th holes to make them more accessible like they were before. There needs to be more risk and reward there, bring back the excitement on those two holes."
Then there's that other side of the clubhouse ... Fred Couples: "What I would change is exactly what they are doing now -- work on the range. The golf course has been upgraded -- and I love it the way it is now -- but the range needed to be fixed up, and I hear that whenever they get it done, it's going to be great. But that's nitpicking. The place is awesome, but to say 'nothing' would be the easy thing."
And now for the easy thing ...
Davis Love III: "Honestly, I wouldn't change a thing."
Anthony Kim: "I can't think of one thing I would do differently there."
Sergio Garcia: "I wouldn't change anything. It's very special."
Trevor Immelman: "There isn't a thing I would ever change about Augusta. It is just the coolest place; it really is. It's something I can't even think about."
Yeah, it's green, but we'd like less of it, actually ...
Ben Curtis: "Augusta National is an unbelievable place. But, you know, I was watching a tape of the '97 Masters, and if we could get the golf course like it was then, without the rough, have the ball rolling 30-40 yards, I think with the length it's at now, that would make it an even better test. Take away the rough, and then if you've got a big hitter who is hitting it off line, he finds himself in the trees and the pine straw. I think without the rough you actually have to be more precise. That would be the only thing I would do."
Justin Rose: "I would love to see it play as long as it is now, but with no rough. I would love to see what that would be like. I've always dreamed about seeing Augusta as just one big carpet, which you don't see now with the second cut and it gets trampled down. It doesn't look as pristine as it could, and I would just really love to see that just once."
Stewart Cink: "I would get rid of the intermediate rough and I would like it to be all fairway again. I would leave everything else the same, but have that one cut, all fairway. That totally separated it from every other course in the way it looked and the way it played."
Hey, ever heard of that stampede at The Who concert?
Todd Hamilton: "There's no way this would ever happen, but if I were the chairman, I would have a Monday qualifier for the Masters. How many people do you think would enter that? How much interest would there be by fans? There would be thousands upon thousands entered, I think, so you would have to limit it, and it would only be for a few spots, but how cool could that be?"
He won't be intimidated by the point of a bayonet ...
Paul Azinger: "Wow, where do I begin? The first thing I would do is put bigger lightning rods on the oak trees behind the clubhouse. Gotta protect those. And also another a big lightning rod on the Eisenhower Tree to make sure I don't lose that, and then the trees on Magnolia Lane. Protecting the key trees would be the top priority.
"Then I would go to a global warming alarmist and find out how global warming is affecting the magnolia trees down Magnolia Lane. I'd be into the environment. Then I would work on raising the height of the fence on the range, just to be safe, so that these new long bombers don't airmail one over the fence and nail one of Martha Burk's supporters on Washington Road. Actually, raising the fence would be the first thing I'd do, just to protect myself from liability. Now, that's a good program right there, don't you think?
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