Impact of Augusta's Altered Landscape on The Masters

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00:00it was catastrophic what happened to this whole area driving around it's insane just every street

00:05you go down the amount of trees that you can see that have been cut in half or just uh are scarce

00:10in some areas uh and and how it affects the golf course well i i think sight lines and targets are

00:17going to be yeah maybe a little bit different than normal there might be some things that stick out

00:21for players like the 10th hole you can really like see a tv tower that really wasn't there before yes

00:28then now it's going to be a sight line for a guy um so just hearing that uh it definitely makes you

00:35think from a player side there's going to be just it'll be a little different and maybe guys might

00:41catch a break or two with a little less trees and i think one of the some of the trees that are the

00:47most like iconic are when you're sitting on top of the hill at 15 and you know you always just see

00:53those trees behind the green that are right at 16 those trees are gone so it's just going to look

00:58a little different on tv this year i think do you think it favors a certain type of player because

01:02i was talking to paul uggetti of espn about this where maybe there's a world in which the course is

01:08softer than it plays normal does that favor a guy that's an incredible iron player a good ball striker

01:13like a call morocaba like a wills out towards who can hit it really close and and and not have to

01:19worry as much about you know a ton of winter firmness like we've seen in past years and then

01:23it kind of negates you know if you're if you're an above average putter for the week you can win the

01:26tournament yeah and i i think one of the like to answer your question augusta national is all about

01:33experience um can first timers win here it's been done before does it mean that uh first timer can't

01:42compete that's it was proven untrue last year with ludvico berg so this course is all about how you

01:50score on the par fives like if you go out and play the par fives even par uh very few guys have won the

01:56golf tournament doing that i think danny willett was the only guy to play the the uh the par fives even or

02:02worse and still win the golf tournament uh which we don't talk about 2016 i don't even know why i brought

02:07it up so one of my favorite guys to to really see on on twitter as far as just different ways to look

02:14at how this you know these players are going to compete on this place ron claus is a really good

02:18job on twitter with really good information pj splits 101 and i think his takeaways are really

02:24really solid just saying that the course experience matters of course a long shot winner is improbable

02:29so those two things we've already just talked about recent winning experience is significant so we

02:34could talk about that here in a moment with some of these top players um an elite putter is not

02:38required i think that's a really good tidbit because yeah you don't have to be a great putter

02:43to win this tournament what you need to be good at is being a very good lag putter yeah you know not

02:48three putting but also being very good inside of 10 feet and you're going to have so many putts

02:54inside of six to eight feet for birdie on par fives and then also those same putts on par fours

02:59and par threes for par that you're going to have to make um obviously you're playing on a lot of

03:05different elevation as far as a lot of different lies something that's probably not talked about

03:10enough uh when it comes to augusta national is being very creative and that's why guys like jordan speed

03:17uh we talked to ben crenshaw the other day super creative players um and then the last part it's a

03:22bomber's paradise and i i tend to agree there with uh you know you can find a a ben crenshaw or not a

03:28ben crenshaw but a uh bryson de chambeau sorry had the bees going but i think that's a good starting

03:33list of you know what it takes to compete at augusta national yeah dylan to chair has this question

03:38of nikolai hoy guard today and i don't know if he was quoting i think he was putting last year's

03:43stats or i don't know it's probably last year not all the time but just saying that the par four

03:47scoring average was like 4.2 and the par five scoring average is 4.6 and post the nikolai was just

03:52saying yeah like it's very obvious where you have to do your work on this golf course yeah i thought

03:56that was even interesting watching that scotty every hole video where you're looking at his

04:00lifetime score to par and you keep going through par four and it's like even even over par then

04:04you get to the part one of the par fives and it's 20 under it's like well it's very clear what his

04:09formula was and it's worked twice it's risk uh that you have to take on on certain holes you know that

04:14the first hole like there's only a one pin there that you can ever really feel like you can make a

04:19birdie to the rest of the time you're playing for par where two you have to make a birdie three you have to

04:24play it aggressively and i think so many players used to lay up on the third hole now you see that

04:31the data says it doesn't matter push it up if you can clear the bunkers off the tee hit driver push it

04:36up and your best chance of hitting the green is going to be from closer to the hole and uh and there's

04:41other instances of this golf course uh but you know at some point you're gonna have to stand up

04:47and hit a shot on a sunday but for the most part you just need to babysit yourself not get yourself into

04:53trouble uh make sure you avoid double bogeys take care of the par fives and you know understand

04:58where you have where you have to play aggressive on this course

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