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...debate over the future of golf, as in so many sports at present, excitement over progress competes with reverence for the past. At Augusta, though, it's no contest - nostalgia has been the driving force behind the changes to the course, and also explains the tournament's wider efforts to foster a throwback feel. Part of the appeal of any sport is the link it provides to previous generations. But because the Masters is the only major golf tournament to return to the same course every year, the notion of following in the footsteps of one's forebears is literal...
...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...
...revolution in the game itself. When the Masters begins on April 10, competitors will play a course that is 520 yards (475 m) longer than the one that hosted the tournament in 1997. That was the year in which Tiger Woods, a prodigiously long hitter, ushered in golf's modern era with a score of 270, still a record in Masters history. His performance, remarkable in itself, also coincided with two other innovations: experts from defunct cold war ballistics programs began designing space-age golf clubs, and new video-analysis technology enabled coaches to deconstruct Woods' swing into thousands...
Most past Masters champions agree that Augusta provides almost the identical test of golfing skill that it did a generation ago. But the fact that it has gone to such lengths to ensure this consistency touches on a debate in the sport about whether professionals are now hitting the ball too far, and whether the game's governing bodies should place tighter restrictions on their equipment. Many other championship venues have undertaken expansions, and new courses with aspirations of hosting professional events are now built with much higher yardage totals. Longer golf courses require more resources for building and maintenance...
...admissions for 10 years beginning in 1974. He assumed the role of dean in 1986, after serving a two-year stint as the director of the Harvard College Fund.O’Donnell called Fitzsimmons the best admissions officer in the country.“We go on a golf trip and he’s got 100 folders with him. It’s his life,” O’Donnell said. “And he knows every one of them. He knows every...