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One More Masters Hour Is Good Enough for Me
The folks down at Augusta National - i.e., Billy Payne - have decided there will be another hour of Masters coverage on Thursday and Friday next year. Instead of going from 4-7:30pm ET, ESPN will broadcast from 3-7:30pm ET. Some complaints have been raised since the tablets came down from Mt....
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 results may mean for the players' careers. Then, Ryan touches on the course setup and how Billy Payne did a...
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 respondents, I think we are beginning to get a picture of how Billy Payne sought to restore scoring to...
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 that artificially produced lower scores. via img.timeinc.net With a record number of rounds...
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 players alike are attacking the course's changes since 2002 without remorse or fear of reprisal. The Cam Cole...
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 predecessor, so most of the work will be done over time, a lot of it discreetly, some of it...
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 rough stinks. Birdies aren't possible. It's too dry out there. Well, Mr. Payne responded by making Augusta...
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