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The Morning According To Us: Not Your Father's Masters Anymore

By Paul Kix

Thursday, April 9, 2009

It's getting harder to watch The Masters: there are no shots left to shape. "My gosh it's brutal," Greg Norman told the media yesterday. "Makes Bethpage Black look like a pitch and putt, it really does." Let's go over the numbers. The course is now 7,445 yards long, 520 yards longer than when Tiger won in 1997. Compared to 15 years ago, there are now 10 fewer birdies on average on the two par-5's on the back 9. In 2007, champion Zach Johnson never once attempted to reach either of those in t ...

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