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1934
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.
1934
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.
1947
1954
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.
1954
1968
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.
1968
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.
1999
2011
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at Augusta National over the past decade, and it's one of the few holes where gallery mounds around the greens have not been replaced by bleachers.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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