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HOLE 18
No. 18 GREEN
No. 18 TEE
No. 17 GREEN
1934
1938
1947
1967
1975
2011
1934
1938
1947
1967
1975
2011
1934
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."
1947
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.
1967
1975
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.
2011
No. 18 GREEN
No. 18 TEE
No. 17 GREEN
1934
1938
1947
1967
1975
2011
18
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
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
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."
1947
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.
1967
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
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.
2011
