Snow At Augusta

These have been making the rounds online (thanks to the readers who forwarded the email) and there are a few more I don't have here at A True Golfer.

The images were captured February 13th. I cropped the date out to protect the innocent, not that Augusta National should find it offensive that these made it online. Then again, it is Augusta National.

Amazing to think that in less than two months the scene will be idyllic and the turf pristine.

Looks like the heating system is working under No. 12 green. And arguably one of the prettiest golf photos I've ever seen:

"As you probably know, the Masters is conducted under the USGA's rules of golf; there is no intention to make an exception in this case."

If you were hoping the Lords of Augusta would show some spine and tell PING Eye2 users to keep their wedges in cold storage for the 2010 Masters, think again. Steve Elling reports exclusively.

**Billy Payne Said To Be Resting Comfortably After Two Asians Vault To Top Of Asian Amateur Leaderboard

Granted, as Sean Martin points out, one of the potential Asian Amateur winners of the coveted Masters invite is the reigning Big 10 champ from Northwestern, Eric Chun. But at least he's not Australian!

Chun, 19, is the reigning Big Ten champ. He has lived in South Korea only about six years and played virtually no tournament golf in the country; he had to receive a special invitation to this event after uncertainty about his Korean citizenship. Chun’s family moved to Malaysia when he was 4.

He lived there until he was 14, when his family moved to Australia to help him develop his game. He lived in South Korea for his final two years before leaving for college, but didn’t play tournaments there. Instead, he came to the U.S. in the summer of 2007 to play AJGA events, hoping to get noticed by colleges in the U.S.
Chun is a sophomore at Northwestern. He is wearing his college uniform this week, while the other six Koreans in the field, including Han, are wearing national-team uniforms.

Update on 2009-11-02 02:29 by Geoff

**And the winner is...Chang-Won Han.


 

"New Augusta National event finger-lickin' good"

I'm not sure why the Asian Amateur needs four corporate sponsors, but Steve Elling only wonders why they let this weird photo opp with Colonel Sanders occur:

There's nothing at all wrong with having sponsors to defray costs of a worthy project, mind you. It's just that the photo was jarring because of the corporate contrast with the decades-old Masters mindset.

Sean Martin writes about that first tee scene and the ceremonial first tee ball hit by Billy Payne.