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Article: GOLF:Longer Augusta National could mean doom for back-nine drama
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- AAP Sports News (Australia)
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- April 3, 2006
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AAP Sports News (Australia)
04-03-2006
GOLF:Longer Augusta National could mean doom for back-nine drama
By Jim Slater
AUGUSTA, Georgia, April 2 AFP - Some of golf's greatest players fear that stretching
fabled Augusta National into the second-longest course in major championship history could
rob the Masters of its traditional back-nine drama.
"It's going to take a bit of the excitement away, definitely," said South African star
Ernie Els, who staged a thrilling back-nine birdie battle in 2004 with eventual winner
Phil Mickelson.
"That kind of golf, I don't think that's going to happen that often anymore because
the holes are getting so long. It's going to narrow the field ...