Cheer for Bryson DeChambeau to drive the first green this week at Augusta National Golf Club. There could be added entertainment value via Sir Nick Faldo.
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Australian golf’s leading commentator, Jack Newton, celebrates the brilliant career of Seve Ballesteros. Newton also suggests how golf’s rulemakers could revive shot-making in today’s power game.Â
Augusta National Golf Club opened to photographers at 7:45am Monday morning local time and Golf Digest’s Ben Walton was there to get an early sense of what a fan-less November Masters might look like.
It will be novel to see how Augusta National looks and sounds devoid of the typical eruptions of blooming flora – or the eruptions of roars and gasps from the patrons – and with gold and orange accents rather than pinks, reds and whites.
With current distance king Bryson DeChambeau considering a 48-inch driver for the Masters next week, Mickelson has been testing a 47½-inch driver that he says he’ll use to try to win his fourth green jacket.
When the new date was first announced, the consensus was that Augusta National would play much longer and much softer in the American autumn, and the early forecast seems to confirm that notion, but not for the reason you think.
Australian Golf Digest
