Word: parred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HOLE 7: 365 yds., par four (average score: 4.26). This is one hole on which you've got to ease it right down the middle of the fairway. Right or left won't do because branches on the trees there aren't cut back and you've only got about a 25-yd.-wide landing strip to have a clean second shot at the green. Jack Nicklaus uses a one-iron here for accuracy, but I'd rather take a chance with the driver and leave myself a pitch with the wedge rather than...
HOLE 10: 485 yds., par four (average score: 4.34). This is one of the holes that make Augusta National a long-driver's course. You've got to flirt with the trees on the left, but gently. Too much left and you're in the woods. The ideal tee shot is a low, running draw that goes slightly left of center in order to catch a steep slope tilting toward the green, leaving you a two-or three-iron home. If you fade your drive to the right, you've got an impossible downhill-sidehill shot...
HOLE 11: 445 yds., par four (average score: 4.32). Here you really want to crank it up because your drive has to carry the crest of a hill. It's another hole favoring the big hitter, and your tee shot should be dead straight-the hardest kind of golf shot to hit. But it's the second shot that's the real tester here, 185-200 yds. if the pin is placed on the back edge of the green or to the left near the pond. But forget the pin placement and always -I mean always...
HOLE 12: 155 yds., par three (average score: 3.36). I agree with Arnold Palmer that this is the toughest par three in golf. It hurts more of us in Masters play than any other hole on the course. First you've got to keep reminding yourself that the wind may blow from behind you off the tee, but you can be sure it's against you at the green. If it's a choice between a six-and seven-iron off the tee, always grab for the six-iron so you can clear the creek. The right...
...make the 10th, 11th and 12th holes in par, you'll pick up a stroke on the rest of the field. I won it all on the 12th in 1952 on the final round. I hit a six-iron into the water, took my penalty shot, and then skulled the ball into the grass bank in front of the green. It looked like a certain six or worse, but I wedged out stone-dead into the cup and saved my lead...