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RBC Canadian Open

TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley - North Course



    By Christopher Powers
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    This will be the most important hole at Augusta National this week, if recent history is any indicator.

    The par-4 third, also known as "Flowering Peach," is both an early birdie opportunity and a hole than can destroy any early momentum before the difficult stretch of Nos. 4, 5 and 6. It's only 350 yards, the same distance it was at the very first Masters in 1934 (back then, it was the 12th hole), but it remains as confounding as ever. As Golf Digest's Jamie Kennedy recently pointed out, it is, by far, the most important hole of the week, statistically. Eight of the last nine Masters champs have birdied it on Sunday. I asked a few of the competitors at this week's Masters to describe their strategy on the short 4, and the answers were illuminating.