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The 19th Hole Golf Show - 4/16/09 - Masters & Donna Hoffman
On this week's program: Ryan devotes the first two segments of the show to the Masters - the players and the course. In segment one, Ryan wonders who choked, who stepped up, and what the resu...
Billy Payne Took What He Had to Restore the Roars
Everyone already knows my thoughts about the architecture of Augusta National in its current form. I'm not going to rehash that. But, courtesy of a Geoff Shackelford post and his responden...
A Commentary on the Setup of Augusta for the 2009 Masters
After the Thursday opening round of the 2009 Masters, I was convinced that the Masters' tournament committee buoyed the scoring average by presenting the field with an absurd set of hole locations tha...
Restore the Roars: For All the Haterz
As I said in my interview with Scotland on Sunday's John Huggan on The 19th Hole podcast, criticizing Augusta National has almost become a cliche in the past couple of years. Writers and player...
John Hawkins - On the Money About Augusta
In Hawk's column this week for Golfworld, he nails it about the very discreet changes to Augusta National that were announced on Election Day. Current chairman Billy Payne is not one to show up his...
Crazy Changes Coming to Augusta National
Augusta National Chair Billy Payne must have been really ticked off at all of the criticism levied on Augusta National and the Masters in the last two years. The course is too long. The ro...
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