1934
This was the 10th hole in the 1934 Masters and has been the first hole since. Players hit drives over a low valley formed by a dry creek bed to an uphill slope guarded by a splashy bunker on the right. Another fancy bunker existed left and far short of the perched green. In the days before automatic irrigation, approach shots had to land well short of a green and bounce onto the hard, dry putting surface.
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In 1950, Robert Trent Jones filled in the old short-left bunker and added one on the left edge of the green. The ditch, wet only when it rained, was piped underground. The Bermuda greens were plagued by Poa annua, which died in the heat. "We start off putting on grass, wind up putting on sand," contestant Skip Alexander said. Not until 1954 did the club successfully "burn" away (with chemical spray) the Poa annua.
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No.1
PAR 4
400 Yards
In 1972, the tee was shifted right to accommodate spectator flow, and mature pines were planted in the left-hand rough to tighten drives. When the green was rebuilt to grow bent grass, a front lobe was added. For the 1983 Masters, the tee was moved back 15 yards, but players weren't told. Instead, club officials said the bunker had been moved 15 yards. The scorecard yardage wasn't changed to 410 yards until 1999.
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2002
No.1
PAR 4
435 Yards
The green was rebuilt in 1996. Rough of 1 3/8 inches (what the club calls a "second cut of fairway") was instituted for the 1999 Masters, tightening the hole. Three years later, golf architect Tom Fazio moved the tee back nearly 25 yards, and this time the fairway bunker was rebuilt and moved 15 yards closer to the green, demanding a
300-yard drive to carry it. The fairway was regraded to give short hitters a level lie.
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No.1
PAR 4
455 Yards
Fazio moved the tee back another 20 yards. The fairway bunker, rebuilt and enlarged just four years earlier, was deepened, and a new thumb of turf was extended into it. It now took a drive of 327 yards to clear the bunker.
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No.1
PAR 4
445 Yards
To ease gallery flow, the back of the tee was shortened by seven yards, shortening the scorecard yardage to 445 yards from 455. In 2008, the green was rebuilt to install a heating and cooling system beneath it to circulate water to warm the grass on frosty mornings and to cool the surface when ground temperatures are high.
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No.2
PAR 5
525 Yards
This was the 11th hole in the first Masters and has been the second hole since. The cross bunker was a modest gamble, even for 1934. More dangerous was a bad bounce off the dirt maintenance road and down a steep hillside on the left. The road was soon removed. A dry creek in the far-left valley ran in front of the green during construction but was buried in pipe before the course opened.
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1947
No.2
PAR 5
525 Yards
The green, 55 feet below the fairway landing area, was so easily reached on the second shot with a fade that a left-hand bunker was added to pinch the front of the putting surface. For ease of maintenance, all the fancy, jagged edges of Alister MacKenzie's bunkers were removed.
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No.2
PAR 5
555 Yards
Golf architect George W. Cobb began a long association with the club by rebuilding the green to extend it to the left, gaining several hole locations. He also added a gallery mound on the back left of the green and rebuilt the three bunkers. A new back tee lengthened the hole. After the 1954 Masters, the common Bermuda grass on the greens was replaced by a new hybrid Bermuda that was less grainy.
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No.2
PAR 5
555 Yards
In 1966, at Gene Sarazen's suggestion, Cobb filled in the cross bunker and added a fairway bunker on the outside turn of the dogleg. Club co-founder Clifford Roberts had drives recorded during the 1967 Masters, and after learning that most players laid up, he directed Cobb to realign the bunker to give more room and temptation on its left. Even after that work, the fairway left of the bunker would eventually shrink to only 12 yards wide.
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1999
No.2
PAR 5
575 Yards
In 1978, his competitive days long behind him, Ben Hogan urged the club to remove the fairway bunker, insisting only the inside corner of a dogleg should be bunkered. But the bunker remained, and when rough and a new back tee were introduced after the '98 Masters, Tom Fazio relocated the bunker well to the right, making its front edge 308 yards from the tee. But the change provided a generous 40-yard avenue left of the bunker.
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No.2
PAR 5
575 Yards
The second has been one of the least-changed holes at Augusta National over the past decade, and it's one of the few holes where gallery mounds around the greens have not been replaced by bleachers. The dry creek still exists to the left, edged by a maintenance road. Years ago, Masters players dubbed it "the Delta Counter." If they ended up there, it was said, they might as well book their flight home.
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No.3
PAR 4
350 Yards
This was the 12th hole in the first Masters and has been the third since. Alister MacKenzie built the green on a natural plateau, making the right side very deep and the left side very shallow, guarding the putting surface with one bunker and several knobs. Just a few steps beyond the green was the tee for the next hole, the custom on most courses in that era.
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1956
No.3
PAR 4
355 Yards
Perry Maxwell, the former "Midwest associate" of MacKenzie, removed the front tongue of the green and reshaped the bunkers in 1937. (Maxwell would handle changes to 11 holes at Augusta National before World War II.) In 1955, the area around the green was regraded on the right to provide a spectator vantage point. From there, fans could also view tee shots from the new tee on the fourth hole.
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No.3
PAR 4
360 Yards
In 1981, the green was rebuilt from the drain tiles up to nurture the new bent-grass turf. A year later, the club considered installing a lake to the left of the fairway, but Jack Nicklaus suggested replacing the single bunker with a cluster of bunkers and mounds. As an active player, Nicklaus declined to be the architect of record, and instead, he had his design associate Bob Cupp handle the changes.
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No.3
PAR 4
350 yards
The green was reconstructed again in the summer of 1994, its contours carefully duplicated. Since then, trees have grown and rough has been added. A note about yardages at Augusta National: The club measures from the middle of the back tee to the farthest useable hole location, rounding the number to the nearest five yards. Thus, yardages often fluctuate without relocation of tees.
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No.4
PAR 3
190 Yards
This was the 13th hole in 1934 and has been the fourth since. In 1932, Alister MacKenzie wrote that it was intended to be "very similar to the famous 11th [Eden] hole at St. Andrews," with severe slopes. He didn't explain the narrow left tongue or why he positioned the green near a city street. In 1938, Perry Maxwell would flatten the green a bit, widen the left tongue and push both bunkers closer to the collar.
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No.4
PAR 3
220 Yards
Despite the cramped space, Clifford Roberts directed that a gallery mound be built behind the green in 1953. A year later, a new back tee was created, officially lengthening the hole to 220 yards, though some thought it was not that long. The new tee, off to the side of the third green instead of behind it, proved less distracting to golfers playing the third.
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No.4
PAR 3
220 Yards
Another new back tee, back and right of the old one, was built, but the official yardage remained at 220. To drain the tee, Cobb graded slightly from front to back, but Jack Nicklaus complained that his low-trajectory tee shots were clipping the front edge. Roberts suggested regrading it to the front. Do that on a hillside tee, Cobb said, and "you'd have a feeling you were falling downhill."
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No.4
PAR 3
240 yards
The scorecard yardage for the fourth was reduced without fanfare to 205 yards in 1981, confirming what players knew: They weren't hitting 4-irons 220 yards. When the green was rebuilt in 1994, a new pin position was created on the back-right corner. In 2005, Tom Fazio extended the tee back 35 yards so it would play as a long-iron or wood shot, as it had 30 years earlier. It has remained that way since.
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PAR 4
440 Yards
This was the 14th hole in the 1934 Masters and has been the fifth since. It was roughly patterned after the Road Hole at St. Andrews, so some insist a deep pot bunker must have fronted the green. We find no evidence of that. Bob Jones apparently opposed the elaborate fairway bunker, and we can't find any photos of it. But it exists on three separate "as-built" diagrams by three individuals, so we include it.
1934
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No.5
PAR 4
450 Yards
In 1937, Perry Maxwell reshaped the green to ocean-wave contours, "a definite improvement," Clifford Roberts wrote, likely referring to drainage, not playability. A 1949 plan shows two small fairway bunkers in place of the big one. This became three bunkers in the early 1950s. Another bunker closer to the green was filled in. Sometime after the 1956 Masters, George Cobb added a bunker back left of the green.
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No.5
PAR 4
450 Yards
In 1964, Cobb removed one of the trio of fairway bunkers. At just 230 yards off the tee, the remaining two were ineffectual. He also created several small fairway mounds, replacing what had been large knobs. Three years later, he expanded the gallery mound to the left of the green to hold nearly twice as many spectators. In 1981, the scorecard yardage was, without explanation, reduced to 435 yards.
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No.5
PAR 4
455 Yards
Tom Fazio shoved the tee back as far as he could, filled in the old fairway bunkers and added two much-deeper bunkers 80 yards closer to the green, so it would take a carry of 315 yards to clear the far one. The bunkers' position shifted the fairway to the right and greatly narrowed the landing area. A heating and cooling system were installed in 2008.
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PAR 4
495 Yards
Augusta National had been acquiring properties and lots surrounding its perimeter for years, and the expanded footprint allowed the club to expand the fifth hole in 2018 by rerouting a section of Old Berckmans Road, which it now owned. The new Masters tee, set in the crook of the road 40 yards beyond the previous one, stretched the fifth to 495 yards, and during the 2019 and 2020 tournaments the hole played, as it frequently had in the past, as Augusta’s most difficult hole.
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PAR 3
185 Yards
This was the 15th hole in 1934 and has been the sixth since. Promising a Redan-style hole, but "much more attractive" than the original at North Berwick, Alister MacKenzie's green was dominated by a mound in the back-right portion, so big that players called it a "buried elephant." Facing a long putt over it, Jimmy Demaret once used a 9-iron to spin the ball off the knob to within a foot of the hole.
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No.6
PAR 3
190 Yards
In the summer of 1953, the creek (short of the green and not in play) was dammed to allow spectator flow through the area without delay at footbridges. The pond was never a factor, either. For 1958, the area to the right and behind the elephant mound was increased by several feet in each direction to make it a fairer target.
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PAR 3
190 Yards
The pond, so full of mud and scum, was filled in after the 1959 Masters. The high point of the back-right knob was eight feet above the front of the green, so many still considered it an elephant mound. Hole locations were placed atop it for many years, until green speeds made the slope unfair.
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No.6
PAR 3
180 yards
The green was carefully surveyed, then torn up in 1981 and rebuilt to a sand base to support bentgrass turf. In 1994, the back-right knob was flattened so it could once again host pin placements. In 2008, the green was ripped up yet again, this time to install a heating and cooling system. Once more, the contours were reproduced to the closest proximity.
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PAR 4
340 Yards
This played as the 16th hole in 1934 and has been the seventh since. Intended as a version of St. Andrews' 18th, it disappointed Bob Jones. "By championship standards, [it] played too short," he wrote. “The contouring of the green did not correspond with our original objective... too severe, or if you choose, too tricky." Byron Nelson, when he won in 1937, reached the green from the tee.
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PAR 4
370 Yards
Clifford Roberts had Perry Maxwell reshape portions of the green in 1937 but concluded no one could truly improve it. At the suggestion of Horton Smith, a new green was built in 1938 beyond the old one, atop a hill. A club member paid for the construction, done with a tractor borrowed from the county. Maxwell was told to make the new green similar to the par-4 eighth at Pine Valley. He fronted it with three bunkers.
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No.7
PAR 4
365 Yards
As if the smallest green — just 3,600 square feet — sitting half-blind 15 feet above the fairway wasn't testing enough, George Cobb added two bunkers behind the green before the 1955 Masters. Fifteen pines were also planted along the fairway. The next summer, the hillside behind the green was cleared of underbrush to create a large gallery mound.
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No.7
PAR 4
410 Yards
In 1966, the bunkers had to be deepened to keep players from putting out of them. In 1994, the green was enlarged on the left for new hole locations. In 2002, a new back tee added 50 yards. Explained Tom Fazio: "Long hitters were driving it past the trees and onto the upslope, leaving them a 50-yard approach they could hit with no spin and stick it close to the hole."
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No.7
PAR 4
450 Yards
In 2005, the back-right corner of the green was softened for new hole locations. Mature pine trees were planted on both sides to tighten the fairway. The Masters tee was moved back another 40 yards, into what had originally been the maintenance yard. Where golfers once walked directly off the sixth green to the seventh tee, they now turn left and walk back 80 yards.
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No.8
PAR 5
500 Yards
This was the 17th hole in the 1934 Masters and has been the eighth hole since. Perhaps the most curious hole Alister MacKenzie ever designed. On a par 5 playing 60 feet uphill, he decided to hide the green, its contours akin to the 17th at Muirfield, "in a punch bowl surrounded by large hillocks nine to 12 feet high." It was just 20 feet wide at one portion, then made a 45-degree turn to the left.
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No.8
PAR 5
500 Yards
Clifford Roberts insisted he loved the green, dubbed “Jane Russell” because of surrounding mounds. But for better views, he had them knocked down. The result was a hideous figure-eight platform green with a vertical drop all around it. Bob Jones got angry at Roberts, telling him he was wrecking the course. For the 1957 Masters, a sign near the green explained that the change was only temporary.
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No.8
PAR 5
530 Yards
In the summer of 1957, George Cobb was summoned to rebuild the green, trying to recover MacKenzie's unique shape, but it became much flatter and wider. In place of the legendary mounds, Cobb built two ordinary bunkers because Roberts still thought spectators deserved to clearly see action on the green. Cobb also filled in the old fairway cross bunker and created a new one farther out and to the right.
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No.8
PAR 5
530 Yards
A year after Roberts' death in late 1977, the club contacted Cobb about restoring the green. But Cobb couldn't recall its original shape or contours. Byron Nelson could, so in 1979 he and a friend, Texas golf architect Joseph Finger, reestablished the punch-bowl green from memory and a few old photos. Nelson even hand-raked the final contours.
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2011
No.8
PAR 5
570 Yards
The green was rebuilt in 1997 by Tom Fazio. A new back-right shelf was created for a proposed Sunday pin position, 111 feet from the front and 18 feet from the right collar. In 2001, Fazio moved the tee 20 yards back and 10 yards to the right. He also moved the bunker farther up the fairway, doubled its size and deepened it. Now a drive must carry 315 yards to clear the bunker.
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PAR 4
420 Yards
This was the 18th hole in the 1934 Masters and has been the ninth since. The fairway was so steep that during construction Clifford Roberts told an engineer to flatten a shelf to contain his drives. "I have many times had occasion to congratulate myself," Roberts later wrote. The horseshoe-shape green was an Alister MacKenzie specialty, but many players drove left, down No. 1 fairway, for a better angle into the green.
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No.9
PAR 4
430 Yards
To eliminate any reward for playing down No. 1 fairway, Roberts had Perry Maxwell totally redesign and rebunker the green. The boomerang shape was removed, and five new bunkers filled the left hillside. Now the advantage went to those who approached it from the right. But Roberts disliked the new green's "pancake appearance." He wrote to Maxwell: "The putting surface looks like something you'd expect to see on a public links."
1938
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No.9
PAR 4
430 Yards
Roberts' solution to the tabletop green was to have Maxwell put back a portion of a tongue that had existed on the MacKenzie green. It should be visible from the fairway, Roberts said, and should permit run-up shots. The tongue was added after the 1938 event. Playing in the 1939 Masters, Bob Jones' chip from behind the green rolled off the front. That summer he had the tongue flattened a bit.
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1956
No.9
PAR 4
420 Yards
Perhaps because the cluster of bunkers kept getting less fearsome (one bunker was removed in 1939, another by 1951), some Masters competitors playing from the ninth tee continued to hook it down the first fairway. To stop the practice, a string of trees was planted just off the front-left edge of the ninth tee.
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1974
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PAR 4
440 Yards
In 1972, a horseshoe-shape berm was created behind the green to serve as a mound for 2,000 viewers. What they saw was players driving to the bottom of the hill. The next summer, the tee was moved back about 15 yards, the club reported. One writer insisted it was moved back 40 yards. Whatever the distance, players in 1974 were again hitting approaches from hanging lies on the fairway downslope. Few reached the bottom.
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2011
No.9
PAR 4
460 Yards
As green speeds increased, the putting surface was repeatedly reduced in slope. Portions were rebuilt in 1986, 1991 and 2007, each time to create new, puttable pin placements. But the green remains the steepest on the course. In 2001, the Masters tee was repositioned another 30 yards back, and more mature pines were planted on the right to complicate recoveries from the pine straw.
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No.10
PAR 4
430 Yards
This was the first hole in 1934 and has been the 10th since. Alister MacKenzie positioned the green in a natural saddle to the right of a dome, on which he dug an ornamental bunker. The hole dropped more than 100 feet, and some players could drive the green. But all rainwater drained to the saddle. When Horton Smith won in 1936, he had to hole out by chipping through standing water on the green.
1934
1938
PAR 4
465 Yards
Bob Jones reluctantly agreed to abandon the "miniature amphitheatre" for a new green designed by Perry Maxwell atop a hill beyond and left of the old one. After the 1938 Masters, Clifford Roberts wrote to Maxwell, “Ten is now a grand golf hole.... I know that Bob is particularly pleased." Jones liked that players could still reach the green with an iron on the second shot if they took advantage of slopes off the tee.
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1974
PAR 4
485 Yards
Golf architect George Fazio and his nephew Tom were retained to enlarge the spectator areas around the ninth and 18th greens. To do so, they shifted the 10th tee back and to the left, elevated it, and scooped out dirt from tee to fairway to aid visibility. When they had finished, the hole played 20 yards longer and was a sharper dogleg left.
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2011
PAR 4
495 yards
Tom Fazio rebuilt the green in 1999 to gain a few more corner hole locations, and in 2001 he moved the tee back another 10 yards and five more yards to the left. No one knows why Maxwell retained the MacKenzie bunker when he relocated the green in 1938. It's now iconic, 59 yards long, the most stylized on the course, supposedly out of play, though Tom Weiskopf once drove into it, 370 yards from the tee.
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PAR 4
415 Yards
This was the second hole in the 1934 Masters and has been the 11th since. Alister MacKenzie designed the hole without a bunker. Bob Jones added one in the center of the fairway, over a crest 240 yards out, for the 1935 Masters, but it was later eliminated. Gene Sarazen, who won in 1935, disapproved of the bunker. "I can't see it from the tee," he said. "Maybe because I'm too short."
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No.11
PAR 4
445 Yards
Before the 1951 Masters, the creek left of the green was dammed to form a pond. Another dam raised Rae's Creek, and the putting surface was reshaped to create pin placements near the water. Clifford Roberts, Robert Trent Jones and Byron Nelson all claimed credit for the idea. For 1952, a new elevated tee was chopped from pines left of the 10th green, straightening and lengthening the 11th and providing room for spectators.
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No.11
PAR 4
445 Yards
Because back-hole locations proved not particularly hazardous, two bunkers, built into mounds for visibility, were installed behind the green. In 1965, the green was rebuilt to elevate it two feet. But a 1990 flood still washed away the putting surface. It was reconstructed to previous contours before the 1991 Masters, using then-new laser technology and a topographic map the club had on file.
1954
1999
No.11
PAR 4
455 Yards
The green was rebuilt yet again to raise the putting surface and surrounds another two feet (including the swale from which Larry Mize chipped in to win the 1987 Masters). The pond was raised one foot, two bunkers behind the green were replaced by one on the right, and the green was extended to bring hole locations within 20 yards of Rae's Creek. The tee was shifted to compensate for the loss of a large pine 180 yards in front.
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No.11
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490 Yards
The tee was moved back 35 yards and five yards to the right, nearly against the tree line. The fairway was regraded to eliminate kicks toward the green. "We moved this tee back three years ago, but we had to do it again because the hole was playing so short," said Tom Fazio, architect of all changes since 1998. "Why play safe when you're hitting a 9-iron or sand wedge for your second shot? We've made it a middle-iron again."
2002
2004
No.11
PAR 4
490 Yards
To further tighten the drive, 36 mature pine trees were transplanted to the right of the landing area. "It continues our long-standing emphasis on accuracy off the tee," said then-chairman Hootie Johnson. Four-time Masters champion Arnold Palmer, a club member, was critical of the new pines, pointing out that they removed one of the prime spectator vantage points on the back nine.
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No.11
PAR 4
505 Yards
The tee was moved back again, making the 11th the first par 4 at Augusta National to measure more than 500 yards. Later, in reaction to Palmer's criticism, several pines on the right were removed. "The result allows for enhanced patron viewing," the club said. But grass beneath the remaining pines was replaced by pine straw, and more dogwoods were added left of the fairway, to punish errant drives.
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No.12
PAR 3
150 Yards
This was the third hole in the 1934 Masters and has been the 12th since. The tee was positioned beneath a frame of three pines, but the pines soon died. The wide, flat green was built by cutting earth from the far bank of Rae's Creek and depositing it on a ledge. The bunkering was strangely rudimentary: a long, skinny one in front, a tiny one atop a hill behind.
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1939
No.12
PAR 3
155 Yards
Clifford Roberts directed Perry Maxwell to enlarge the green on the right by digging out dirt from the bank behind the green. If that exposed rock, Roberts wrote, “I think it will add to the thrill of the hole, as a very strong shot will strike the rock and bounce most anywhere." A month later, Roberts wrote to Maxwell again: "We do not wish to expose any rocks on the bank." Maxwell turned the pits into bunkers.
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1951
No.12
PAR 3
155 Yards
For years, the area between the tee and Rae's Creek was a bog that routinely flooded. (During rains in 1936, rowboats were considered to get players to the green.) When Rae's Creek was dammed for flood control in 1950, a tiny stream off the tee was buried in pipe, and the entire area was raised a bit. A swale was created behind the green to remove water, and the bunkers were relocated.
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No.12
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155 Yards
The arched Ben Hogan Bridge was added in 1958, its grass surface soon replaced by artificial turf. In the summer of 1965 came more flood control. Dirt was brought in with wheelbarrows to raise the entire putting surface 18 inches. Land between the tee and creek was raised another two feet, and side-by-side split-level tees were built. The Masters tee was lower than the tee used by the members.
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No.12
PAR 3
155 Yards
All greens were converted to bent grass in 1980. It was decided to slowly rebuild greens to sand bases, better for growing bent. When construction reached the 12th green in 1981, coils were placed beneath the green to circulate warm water to heat the ground on frosty mornings. The concept was later duplicated under other greens at Augusta National.
1982
2011
No.12
PAR 3
155 Yards
All that flood control, and yet a portion of the hole was damaged in an October 1990 flood. It was quickly repaired. Bunkers have remained in the same position for the past 60 years. The width and depth of the green has gradually shrunk, a result of its reconstruction and new mowing patterns.
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No. 13 GREEN
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No.13
PAR 5
480 Yards
This was the fourth hole in the 1934 Masters and has been the 13th since. Alister Mackenzie and Bob Jones discovered the natural hole early in their tour of the land and decided any routing had to include it. It needed only a tee, a green and some tree removal. Shallow "flash bunkers," stretching uphill between tree trunks, were added before the first Masters. They were soon removed for oval bunkers behind the green.
1934
1955
No.13
PAR 5
470 Yards
George Cobb removed the front-left thumb of the green, putting a new bunker in its place. He also added another bunker on the left and rebuilt existing ones behind the green. Wooden bridges over the creek near the green were converted to grass-topped rock bridges. (The arched Byron Nelson Bridge at the tee wouldn't be built until 1958.) Cobb also shifted the tee five yards to the right to accentuate the dogleg.
1955
1976
No.13
PAR 5
485 Yards
In 1970, the club bought a strip of land of nearly two acres behind the 12th green and 13th tee from neighboring Augusta Country Club. Privacy trees were soon planted on it. Five years later, the 13th tee was relocated onto this land, adding 10 yards. Cobb also rebuilt the bunkers and the green, restoring its original two-level characteristic. For the 1976 Masters, the green was "hard as a city sidewalk," and many shots bounced over it.
1976
1984
No.13
PAR 5
465 Yards
To improve drainage, the green was rebuilt by Bob Cupp of Jack Nicklaus' design firm, adding elevation, contour and a swale between the collar and bunkers. Before the 1984 Masters, Nicklaus asked Tom Weiskopf what he thought. "Players won't like it," Weiskopf said before showing Nicklaus a steep dropoff left of the green. Said Jack: "This isn't close to what I told them to do." The edge wasn't softened until the 1988 Masters.
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1987
No.13
PAR 5
465 Yards
In 1986, then-chairman Hord Hardin thought players hitting from the rocky streambed were slowing up play. So he directed that dams be installed to raise the water level into a moat. It was an extremely unpopular move with fans and players. Said former champ Ben Crenshaw, "Golf would not be a mystery if there were not instances of two different outcomes on the same shot." The moat remained until the 1996 Masters.
1987
2011
No.13
PAR 5
510 Yards
In 1994, the yardage was revised to 485 yards without any physical change. In 2001, another small section of land was purchased from Augusta Country Club. A new Masters tee was built on it, adding 25 yards. Two years later, the green was rebuilt again to install a heating and cooling system beneath it. Trees planted a decade ago at the far corner of the dogleg now pinch the "banked turn" tee-shot landing area.
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No. 14 TEE
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No.14
PAR 4
425 Yards
This was the fifth hole in the 1934 Masters and has been the 14th hole ever since. Alister MacKenzie based his design on the strategy of the sixth hole at St. Andrews. A drive up the right side, over the sprawling cross bunker, opened up the approach. A drive to the left side would leave a half-blind run-up shot over a gigantic mound short of the green, which featured exaggerated contours.
1934
1939
No.14
PAR 4
425 Yards
MacKenzie's original green had an abrupt face at its front. His former associate Perry Maxwell merged a lower deck of the putting surface to it, then added two fairway knobs on the right, so golfers from any angle had to deal with potentially bad bounces. (This was the era before routine irrigation. Greens were usually hard and dry, and shots had to be bounced into them.)
1939
1956
No.14
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420 Yards
After the 1952 Masters, the cross bunker was filled in. So close to the tee, it had served little purpose, even though the optimal play was a draw to hold the tee shot against the fairway sloping left to right. (Today, 14 is the only hole at Augusta National without a bunker.) Before the 1956 Masters, two small MacKenzie mounds behind the green were converted into one broad gallery mound.
1956
2011
No.14
PAR 4
440 yards
In 1981, the scorecard yardage was changed to 405 yards. Before 1993, the tee was shifted left, and in 2002 it was moved back 35 yards. The green was reconstructed in 1997, adding new hole locations, and in the late 1990s mature pines were added to tighten the driving zone. At that time, the grand old MacKenzie mound short of the green on the left was bulldozed, an antiquity in today's aerial game.
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No. 15 GREEN
No. 15 TEE
No. 14 GREEN
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1934
No.15
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485 Yards
This was the sixth hole in the 1934 Masters and has been the 15th hole since. It was the scene of Gene Sarazen's historic double-eagle 2 that tied him with Craig Wood in 1935. (Sarazen won the playoff the next day.) In truth, his shot over water wasn't particularly daunting. Described as a ditch, ravine, creek, stream and moat, the water was at least 20 yards short of the green, with a gentle bank, not a steep slope, in between.
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No.15
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485 Yards
Downstream from the 15th (to the left), the creek was dammed and piped underground. That backed water up into a hollow, creating a pond in front of the 15th green; some called it a lagoon. Its greenside slope was now steeper and slicker. A trio of pine trees in the fairway had finally grown sufficiently to become an annoyance.
1949
1957
No.15
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520 Yards
A formal dam left of the pond was established in 1955, its walkway designated the Gene Sarazen Bridge in honor of the Squire's double eagle. The next summer, dirt was hauled in to extend the tee and to create gallery mounds behind and to the right of the green. At the 1956 Masters, Ben Hogan suggested the right-hand mound would be perfect for a bunker, and one was carved into it before the 1957 event.
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No.15
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520 Yards
In 1962, George Cobb widened the pond so players could clearly see its leading edge. In 1969, the tee was moved back 40 yards, but the scorecard yardage didn't change. At the same time, Clifford Roberts directed the installation of a series of high mounds on the right side of the fairway. Meant as hazards, players ultimately used them to propel drives farther down the hole.
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1999
No.15
PAR 5
500 Yards
Without explanation, the official yardage was reduced to 500 yards in 1981. In the summer of 1998, mounds in the rough were removed, and several clusters of tall pines—some 35 feet high—were transplanted in that area (as well as to the left) to drastically tighten the landing zone. Roberts' mounds on the right side of the fairway, mistakenly considered MacKenzie originals, were retained.
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2011
No.15
PAR 5
530 Yards
A new Masters tee, 30 yards back and 20 yards left of the old one, was built in 2005. From there, the preferred drive was definitely a fade into the gap between the trees. A year later, the Masters tee was extended forward about seven yards to provide the option of moving markers up in certain wind conditions.
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No. 16 GREEN
No. 16 TEE
No. 15 GREEN
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No.16
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145 Yards
This was the seventh hole in the 1934 Masters and has been the 16th since. Originally patterned after the seventh hole at England's Stoke Poges (now Stoke Park), its green was guarded by the same creek that, downstream, still edges the 13th. The tee was just right of the 15th green. In 1941, a tee honoring Gene Sarazen was added left of the 15th green, just 50 feet from the spot where he holed his double eagle in 1935.
1934
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No.16
PAR 3
145 Yards
After the second Masters, the green was expanded to the left, and the two hillside bunkers were pulled closer to the green, creating some testy hole locations between the stream and the sand. A huge knob-nearly an elephant mound similar to the sixth green-dominated the widest portion of the putting surface. Despite the changes, Bob Jones considered the hole a weak link.
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No.16
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190 Yards
Just after World War II, Jones joined architect Robert Trent Jones (no relation) in designing Peachtree Golf Club in Atlanta, which led to Trent being invited to handle changes at Augusta. Trent suggested rotating the 16th hole 90 degrees, damming the creek into a pond and creating a new tee at one end and a new green, with two bunkers, at the other end. Greenkeeper Marion Luke built the hole to Trent's plans.
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No.16
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190 Yards
The summer after Trent Jones created the new green, he raised the height of its back terrace and added a tiny third bunker on the left. He also dammed and piped underground a stream that had previously split the tee box. Up that stream, his work formed the pond in front of the 15th green. In 1950, Clifford Roberts poured bags of copper, sulphate into the pond on 16 to turn its muddy water blue.
1949
1966
No.16
PAR 3
190 Yards
In 1959, the creek that crossed the sixth fairway and fed into the pond on 16 was piped underground, but a narrow neck of exposed water was retained as a hazard left of the 16th green. In 1966, that neck was piped underground. Shots long and left no longer ended up wet. The back left corner of the green was also abandoned, and the area was regraded into a tightly mowed slope.
1966
2011
No.16
PAR 3
170 Yards
In 1999, the green was reconstructed to gain more hole locations at the front and back. In 2006, the green complex was rebuilt again, and the surrounding bunkers were made much deeper. The latest construction activity has occurred across the pond, in the area of the original 16th green. The vast, comfortable viewing area for spectators has been improved by expanding it and adding an access staircase from the fifth green.
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No. 17 GREEN
No. 17 TEE
No. 7 GREEN
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No.17
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400 Yards
This was the eighth hole in the 1934 Masters and has been the 17th since. Alister MacKenzie fashioned the green after the 14th at St. Andrews. The left side of the putting surface sloped away from the player, so it was essential to play a run-up approach. "Until players have learned to play the desired shot," MacKenzie wrote, "this will undoubtedly be one of the most fiercely criticized holes.”
1934
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No.17
PAR 4
400 Yards
In the summer of 1937, MacKenzie's old cohort Perry Maxwell remodeled the green and added three bunkers at its front. Clifford Roberts was not pleased, writing to Maxwell after the 1938 Masters, "I do not think you should have banked up the left-hand back side of the green. This is supposed to be a run-up hole. You have changed the character of the hole by inviting players to pitch it to the green."
1938
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No.17
PAR 4
400 Yards
By the mid-1950s, a once-small loblolly pine, 175 yards off the tee on the left, had grown tall enough to menace short hitters. At a 1956 meeting, club member Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed that the tree be cut down. Roberts ruled him out of order and adjourned the meeting. From then on out, it was referred to as the Eisenhower Tree.
1956
1967
No.17
PAR 4
400 Yards
In the summer of 1966, a huge gallery mound was added left of the green. Roberts stood near the top of a stepladder positioned in the bed of a pickup truck and raised his hand to show how high he wanted the mound. George Cobb was directed to fill in the far-left bunker and reshape the other left bunker so it would extend into the mound.
1967
2002
No.17
PAR 4
425 Yards
Mature pines transplanted to the right of the 15th hole in 1999 also came into play on 17, which parallels 15 in the opposite direction. A new back tee added that year lengthened the hole by 25 yards. Still, the Eisenhower Tree was only 200 yards from the tee, easily cleared by good players. From 1999-2001, tall pines were transplanted beyond Eisenhower to eventually take its place and complicate hooks.
2002
2011
No.17
PAR 4
440 Yards
In the summer of 2005, Tom Fazio relocated the Masters tee back another 15 yards and supervised the planting of more mature pines on the left near the green to reduce the air space on approach shots. The 17th fairway is now the most narrow driving hole on the course, suggesting a slight draw around the 65-foot Eisenhower Tree or a power fade over the top of it.
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No.17
PAR 4
440 Yards
The most significant recent alteration to the 17th hole wasn’t conducted by either the club or an architect, but by Mother Nature. In February 2014 an ice storm claimed the life of the Eisenhower Tree that had defined the left side of the hole for over 50 years. With the tree no longer standing guard, the tee shot is much more open, though the maturing pines farther down the fairway continue to gobble errant drives.
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No. 18 GREEN
No. 18 TEE
No. 17 GREEN
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No.18
PAR 4
420 Yards
This was the ninth hole in the 1934 Masters and has been the 18th since. The hole has always played 70 feet uphill, over a valley to a landing area about 25 feet higher, then another 45 feet up to the green. Whether the bunker right of Alister MacKenzie's enormous stair-stepped 18th green was deliberately shaped like the state of Texas or was just a coincidence has never been determined.
1934
1938
No.18
PAR 4
425 Yards
Much as he did in modifying the nearby ninth green, Perry Maxwell, the former associate of MacKenzie, eliminated the long front tongue on the 18th green after the 1937 Masters. MacKenzie's cross bunker remains a mystery. About 100 yards short of the green, it was too far off the tee to be a problem on drives but too far from the green to interfere with approach shots. But the bunker would remain until 1956.
1938
1947
No.18
PAR 4
425 Yards
Standing on the club's first "amphitheatre mounds" by the 18th green at the 1946 Masters, Bob Jones watched Ben Hogan three-putt from 12 feet to lose by one, then said to Robert Trent Jones, “Trent, that's not fair. We've got to change that." Trent recontoured the green that summer. Recalling the putt years later, Hogan said, “The greens were so slick you could almost hear them crackle, which I liked."
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1967
No.18
PAR 4
420 Yards
Two summers after Jack Nicklaus set a Masters scoring record, two fairway bunkers were created. Clifford Roberts called them a "huge, two-sectioned bunker," probably because the club appropriated funds for only two bunkers, and Roberts also wanted one built on the second hole. In the next Masters, Nicklaus caught the sand off the 18th tee, made a bogey and missed the cut by one shot.
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No.18
PAR 4
420 Yards
Just a month before the 1975 Masters-an unusual time to make alterations-Roberts had a collection of mature pine trees planted in a 75-yard gap between the existing tree line on the left and the two fairway bunkers. "To provide a potential penalty for a duck-hooked tee shot," Roberts said. In 1978, Hogan wrote to the club, advocating elimination of the fairway bunkers on 18. The club declined his advise.
1975
2011
No.18
PAR 4
465 Yards
In 2001, Tom Fazio moved the Masters tee back as far as he could, stretching the hole to 465 yards. He reshaped and expanded the two fairway bunkers and directed that additional mature pines be planted left and beyond the bunkers. It now takes a drive of 300 yards to reach the first bunker and a carry of 335 yards to clear the second one.
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415 Yards
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445 Yards
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455 Yards
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490 Yards
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490 Yards
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505 Yards
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150 Yards
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155 Yards
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480 Yards
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465 Yards
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425 Yards
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425 Yards
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420 Yards
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440 Yards
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485 Yards
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485 Yards
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520 Yards
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520 Yards
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500 Yards
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530 Yards
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145 Yards
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145 Yards
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190 Yards
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190 Yards
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190 Yards
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170 Yards
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400 Yards
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420 Yards
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425 Yards
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