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Golf, being a Scottish game, is steeped in Calvinist notions of sin and salvation. At most championship courses, a graceful swing from the tee will find the fairway, but when golfers err from the straight and narrow, they find themselves in the wilderness of the rough. The Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia is different: being in Southern Baptist country, it gives golfers the benefit of the doubt. Its wide, generous fairways mean the outcome is rarely predestined from the tee. What matters is the endgame - the approach shot and, most crucially, the chips and putts on its devilishly slick...
Until 1999, Augusta, which hosts the Masters tournament each year over the second weekend of April, had no rough at all. Indeed, when its tournament committee finally introduced a light rough around some of its fairways, they couldn't bear to call it by its name, instead christening it "the second cut" of the fairway. Their squeamishness gives some indication of how ardently Augusta honors its idiosyncratic traditions. Most infamously, the club, which was founded by the legendary golfer Bobby Jones in 1933, didn't admit a black member until 1990, and for decades all of the caddies that...
...with “a lot of weird holes” with bumpy greens, especially in the front nine. “The holes were designed to benefit extraordinary shots,” he said. “Even if it was in the wrong part of the fairway you’d be in trouble.” This tournament was unique for the Crimson, however, in that all eight members of the team traveled rather than the usual five. “We’re looking to play in competition, [since] that?...
Alan Gentry stood by his ball off the seventh fairway and took a few practice swings. He had no club in his hand. Like any other golfer, he was grooving a perfect shot in his mind before selecting the proper stick. But unlike most, he had no right arm in his socket. So when a car drove by Gentry as he warmed up, four heads whipped back to catch the sight. Did you see that? Was that guy actually warming up with...
...would say that my game is pretty well-rounded right now,” Hazlett said. Yesterday’s high winds made the already long Springdale Golf Club play even longer than it had on Saturday. The wind also made the course’s fairways play narrower, which, combined with the hard, fast greens, put a premium on the precision of longer shots. The Crimson did, however, deal well with the difficult 10th hole—a dogleg-right with tall trees constricting the fairway 70 yards from a severely undulating green—that plagued...