Augusta Lengthening

[iacas]

What do you think of Augusta's plans to lengthen the golf course yet again? My thoughts are pretty clearly laid out in that article. What are yours?

[flap]

With reading the article I say leave it alone.What have they got against adding some rough instead of lenth?Put some U.S. open type rough in and then you made it a tougher course with out taking away 35% of the field.

[aceadair]

I like flap's idea.. just give it some rough and with the "Augusta Greens" hitting it in the lengething rough. It should be plenty hard.

[mediaguru]

They don't have "rough" at Augusta...they have "the first cut." The founders didn't really believe in "rough" per se. So I don't think rough will be an option any time soon.

[iacas]

They don't have "rough" at Augusta...they have "the first cut." The founders didn't really believe in "rough" per se. So I don't think rough will be an option any time soon.

Bobby Jones didn't believe in 500-yard par-4s either.

They made a good point on TGC and the 19th hole the other day. We understand how golf equipment and golfers and maintenance makes for a longer course than when Jack played, etc. But a course that's, say, 1000 yards longer than it was 20 years ago makes it nearly impossible to compare records.

[mediaguru]

"Bobby Jones didn't believe in 500-yard par-4s either."

Amen to that brother. Or should I say Amen corner to that brother?

I don't think the greens were nearly as fast back then either.

[aceadair]

I can agree to that. But what would you rather see a birdie fest or a US Open type masters? I still think that lengething the rough would make it plenty hard.