Augusta National golf course

[Lord Tyrion]

Two things non golfers ask me when they're trying to make conversation, how often I get a hole in one and have I ever played that one that's really green on tv.

Do you quickly try to move away from those people and talk to someone else?

 

[Bazz]

Do you quickly try to move away from those people and talk to someone else?

Nope. Every round and yes loads of times. What they gonna do.

 

[London424]

What I like about it is the familiarity of knowing it much more than courses rotate. I also like that no one is really out of it and if you’re hitting it well you can shoot a score. When the course is set up at a good length it opens up eagle through to double bogey in a lot of places. There’s also enough trouble around that players have to shape shots or find windows through trees etc. they don’t have the extra thick rough where when you go in it you know it’s just a hack out.

 

[Swango1980]

I really like the course.

There are big tests all over the place for the world's best golfers. Just look at some of the car crashes many of them faced over the 4 days. We saw the carnage of McIlroy at times, but many would never have been given air time. I noticed Lowry shot a round in the 80's yesterday, a guy that started the round at -5. None of the carnage seemed like it was unfair, it was just golfers being punished for bad errors, or getting themselves out of position.

But, despite the big tests, it also gives the worlds best golfers a chance to showcase their talent. Sometimes it might require an unbelievable chip on an undulating game. Other times it might take a huge draw around trees to land it on a par 5 on the other side of water, or flushing it out of the pine straw.

 

[evemccc]

I can't relate to any golfer who would say that Augusta isn't somewhere they'd want to play. The list of reasons why I'd want to is a long one, increased by me having been as a spectator.

Of course, that's their view and they're entitled to it. As long as they hand over their invite should they get one!!

I’m not saying I wouldn’t bite off anyone’s hand to play Augusta…it’s probably the course I would most want to play in the world (along with Troon and Portrush and Cypress Point)

What I’m saying is that (my guess) is that people don’t eulogise over very highly regarded parkland courses in this country, the way they do over heathland and esp links courses.
So perhaps it’s not the nature of the golf course that’s so appealing, but it’s inherent familiarity to golfers. The chance to play holes so familiar as Amen Corner, and to take in the challenge of the approach to 15, and to attempt the funnel pin on 16 etc.

(Yes I recognise the perfection/or pristine conditioning and the history of Augusta that makes it, as well)

 

[IanM]

You know I prefer Links

The view from 14th tee at Trump Aberdeen is more spectacular than anything you'd see at Augusta.

It's like comparing the view across Braunton Burrows and Kew Gardens They are quite different, but both beautiful.