{"id":9449,"date":"2012-03-30T03:39:17","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T01:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/golf-augusta-national-hole-by-hole-for-2012-masters\/"},"modified":"2012-03-30T03:39:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T01:39:17","slug":"golf-augusta-national-hole-by-hole-for-2012-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/golf-augusta-national-hole-by-hole-for-2012-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf-Augusta National hole by hole for 2012 Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Mark Lamport-Stokes<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">March 29<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Augusta National Golf Club, the<br \/>\nspiritual home of American golf and the only permanent venue for<br \/>\nany of the four majors, will stage the 76th U.S. Masters in<br \/>\nAugusta, Georgia, next week.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The immaculate, par-72 layout, affectionately regarded as<br \/>\nthe &#8216;Cathedral of Pines&#8217;, was originally designed by Alister<br \/>\nMackenzie and Bobby Jones and it has hosted the opening major of<br \/>\nthe season since 1934.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Controversially stretched by 285 yards for the 2002 Masters<br \/>\nbut shortened by 10 yards for the 2009 edition, the 7,435-yard<br \/>\ncourse ranks as the ninth longest to hold a major.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here is a hole-by-hole look at Augusta National for the<br \/>\nApril 5-8 Masters (hole names are derived from the distinctive<br \/>\nflora found on each hole):<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>No. 1 (Tea Olive) par four, 445 yards &#8211; From an elevated<br \/>\ntee, the player hits across a wide valley to a tree-lined<br \/>\nfairway protected by a deep bunker on the right, a 327-yard<br \/>\ncarry. The green on this uphill, slight dogleg right hole is<br \/>\ncrowned and difficult to hold.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>No. 2 (Pink Dogwood) par five, 575 yards &#8211; The fairway runs<br \/>\ndownhill and curls to the left with the green reachable in two,<br \/>\nalthough large and deep greenside bunkers await any short<br \/>\napproach. The shallow green is very wide, setting up some long<br \/>\nputts.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mark Lamport-Stokes March 29 (Reuters) &#8211; Augusta National Golf Club, the spiritual home of American golf and the only permanent venue for any of the four majors, will stage the 76th U.S. Masters in Augusta, Georgia, next week. The immaculate, par-72 layout, affectionately regarded as the &#8216;Cathedral of Pines&#8217;, was originally designed by Alister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-9449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}