First Masters Poll...How Much Did Course Impact Sunday?
/I know you all taped, recorded and watched my Morning Drive phone appearance today to hear Gary Williams, Damon Hack and I talk about the difficulty of the back nine. With no eagles Sunday on No. 15, no birdie on 17, and the 11th only yielding a couple of birdies, the back nine continues to be extremely difficult under Masters conditions. There is still a strong imbalance of risk and reward even with the likes of Bubba having a 360-yard drive in the arsenal.
Longtime readers know how I feel: the pines planted by Tom Fazio and Hootie Johnson down the right of the 11th and between the 15th and 17th holes, restrict freedom, clutter the grand scale of a beautiful property and blatantly disrespect the design vision of Mr. Jones and Dr. MacKenzie.
That said, with the Masters fresh in mind, I'm curious which hole stands out to you as most needing to be made more gettable, more fun, and less penal to help give the players a better chance of providing us a few more thrills.
