How to make Augusta more Challenging?

*under_par*

Hi All,

So it is that time again and if you look at the trend of past Masters the course is getting longer and longer. Well, once they run out of property what would they do to make it more challenging for the golfers?

I am temtped to say that they would make it look more like the Opens (with the dry greens and tall rough) but I would dare say that they will redesign some of the holes to make it more difficult (with more bunkers or more trees).

What do you think?

*x-forged*

i think they would narrow the fairways, lengthen the rough, and add some bunkers like you said. But then again Augusta plays incredibly hard at the Masters, so I dont think it will need much to make it more challenging, unless they want it to play like Oakhurst or something.

tiger_who

you want to make augusta MORE challenging

*under_par*

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Originally Posted by tiger_who

you want to make augusta MORE challenging

It will happen one day brother where the technologies will make Augusta a tame course...we hope not in the near future but I would guess in 5 years.

*BruceH*

But why?

I guess enough vandalism has already been done that any more butchery would be par for the course (so to speak).

*Jack_2251*

I think that they should make the standard of the Masters, British and Us open so that the pro's will shoot around even par, so it is still playable, but no impossible (oakmont)

*Big_M*

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Originally Posted by under_par

It will happen one day brother where the technologies will make Augusta a tame course...we hope not in the near future but I would guess in 5 years.

I disagree... average driving distance will stop going up because of technology very soon.

To answer the question... if they did change something I can't see it be making it play like a US Open course... for that matter I don't see them going crazy adding bunkers or anything either, but maybe a little something.

*Thrash13*

I enjoy the U.S. Open because it's tough for guys to shoot rounds under par. The Masters, however, is different for good reason. It's tough enough that a bunch of guys aren't consistently finishing at -10 or better, but it's playable enough to have low rounds on occasion. The course has been changed far too much in recent years, and it doesn't need any changes for quite some time. I don't see the scores changing much over the next decade or so at the very least. As long as the greens stay as tough as they are now, the scoring will never get too out of hand.

*Craig Mac*

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Originally Posted by Thrash13

I enjoy the U.S. Open because it's tough for guys to shoot rounds under par. The Masters, however, is different for good reason. It's tough enough that a bunch of guys aren't consistently finishing at -10 or better, but it's playable enough to have low rounds on occasion. The course has been changed far too much in recent years, and it doesn't need any changes for quite some time. I don't see the scores changing much over the next decade or so at the very least. As long as the greens stay as tough as they are now, the scoring will never get too out of hand.

Well said!!