"What %$#@!&^%$ fool put a %$#@!&^%$ bunker right in the %$#@!&^%$ center of the fairway?"

It didn't make the story, but another fun trace of the Old Course in the original Augusta National design came on the eleventh hole. It existed for a few years back when the tee was to the right of the tenth green, and when the hole doglegged right. It played much shorter then with a fairway sloped away from the tee. (Long before Hootie made an awful mess of it (right image).)

Jones and MacKenzie planned a 415-yard dogleg right par-4 where drives down the left side were rewarded with a better angle to the green. To inject the ultimate St. Andrewsian touch, Jones insisted on a small, blind pot bunker in the fairway center. He found out on opening day in 1932 that not everyone was enamored with the mystery, vagaries and quirk of the Old Course.

In The Making of The Masters, David Owen shares the story of Jones’s father, Colonel Bob Jones, driving into the bunker while playing with his son and Clifford Roberts.

“When the Colonel found his ball in the sand, he shouted, ‘What goddamned fool put a goddamned bunker right in the goddamned center of the fairway?’ or words to that effect.

One can only imagine how much delight that gave Bobby Jones!