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- Masters Lost Its Roar? cont'd
- Just when we'd thought we made a convincing case that new course conditions at Augusta, given the right weather, will produce the requisite scores and roars, here comes a letter from Mick Herron, Director of...
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- Has the Masters Lost Its Roar?
- Some of us thought perhaps we'd watched a different tournament when post-Masters reports called the it boring and decried the loss of roars post course-alteration. Players--Tiger included--were happy to cooperate with these reports, calling the...
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- Masters: Assessing The Course
- We're getting a bunker full of mail on the Masters course changes and set-up. Like John Hawkins, who covered the event for Golf World, and many other writers, some--but not all--or you think that the...
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- Masters: The Course
- Changes to Augusta National this year are not extensive--the thinning of trees along the right side of No. 11 is a welcome change for both spectators and players--but there remains considerable talk about "Hootie's" changes,...
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- Masters Slope
- "I'm just a normal guy from Iowa." --Zach Johnson Those debating the merits of the "new" Augusta and the Masters course set-up, should enjoy the discussion about what Augusta's championship slope rating ought to be...
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- More Masters
- "It may not be out of place to say here that I never won a major championship until I learned to play golf against something and not somebody...and that something was par." Bob Jones, Down...
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- Masters Reaction 2
- "We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?" --Jean Cocteau The verdict is in. Sunday was great. Thursday, Friday, Saturday not so much. Ratings are...
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- Masters Reaction 3
- Red directional flags were rippling all week atop the tall fence at the end of the practice range, but yellow, the universal symbol of caution, would have been more appropriate. Bill Fields We're still getting...
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- Masters and NASCAR-- Oh, that's why...
- Perhaps we're a bit golf-centric here at Golf World and Golf Digest. At least one reader thinks so. Dear Editor, I had to laugh about you thinking NASCAR didn’t want to go up against Masters...
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- More Masters Reaction
- I heard great things about the coverage Sunday. The Tiger/Phil "tournament" in the early going, the Kenny Perry/Angel Cabrera/Chad Campbell tournament later. But not everyone was pleased with either television's coverage or print's. . Dear...
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- Tom Brokaw on the Masters
- Your letters continually surprise me. This one, about Tom Brokaw's Masters essay in the April issue, a case in point. Dear Editor, If personal maturation consists of a series of disillusionments, I am more mature...
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- Masters: Assessing The Course
- We'll take a moment away from the Green debate to engage in the Green Jacket debate: Have the leaders of Augusta National toughened the to the point that it has lost its roars, made it...
