How do i play augusta national

After taking a break in due to the COVID pandemic, the event returned in and featured a playoff for the title. They even spoke about their experience on our Masters preview podcast.

Austin Johnson, caddie for Dustin Johnson, rakes a bunker on the 10th green during the second round of the Masters Tournament. If you work as a caddie for the golf club, you might gain access to play 18 holes, as one day is set aside for caddies to play. Lefty was back on familiar turf at Phoenix Country Club, shooting a 65 in the first round on Thursday. He says he likes playing fast and at the Phoenix Country Club, Kenny Perry proved it with a 3-hour round.

Masters: Wanna play Augusta National? Augusta National Golf Course is one of the most private and closed off golf courses. There are only a handful of ways to be able to play here. Some of the different ways that a person could play a round at Augusta National are to become a volunteer at the Masters Tournament, join Augusta country club, become a caddie, win the media ballot, or know a member. Membership is invitation only meaning that the only way to even become a member to play at this course is to know somebody.

Augusta National golf course is one of the nicest and best kept golf courses that you will see in America. It is the nicest golf course that many play on throughout their entire life.

Although, even if it is one of the nicest golf courses in the country it is also one of the hardest courses to get playing time on. There are only a handful of ways that people are able to play a round of golf at Augusta National. They were right. Striding up the first fairway, chatting amiably with my three playing partners, was a feeling of such carefree abandon it made up for pulling my opening tee shot into the pine straw just a few moments earlier.

I was forced into the latter option after a mediocre drive. I then pulled my yard approach into the back left bunker. I read the putt as a couple of inches from the left, as did my three playing partners. Lesson No. The back right pin is isolated on a slither of green behind a steep false front. From the sunken fairway at the par-4 7th, a trio of bright white bunkers completely obstruct the view of the putting surface.

Its main defence is its green complexes. Severe undulations and false fronts around the greens combined with heaving swales on them mean there are no-go zones on much every hole — and they can change daily depending on the pins.

Bunkers are used, not so much to punish errant shot-making, but to tempt you into taking on a risky shot. As a high single-figure player, I had a fighting chance of a par at every hole. With no double-bogeys on the card, I felt I coped well — the highlights being playing the four-hole stretch from 10 to 14 in just two-over par, and making a birdie at I enjoyed being able to unleash drives into wide fairways and the opportunity to figure out puzzles around the greens.

With epic chips, I saved pars from the left of the 5th green and the back of the 15th, while I scrambled a bogey at 13 with a smart pitch, having found the creek with my approach shot. While Augusta National is not my favourite golf course, in many ways it is the pinnacle of golf in that it has everything — beauty, variety, tranquillity, risk-reward, towering pines, elevated open vistas and just the right amount of water. Arguably, its greatest attribute is its ability to present the right type of challenge to each type of golfer.

How would my eight-handicap game stand up to the challenges with which it would be presented? The cambers and the left-to-right dog-leg camouflage your landing area, which is mildly unsettling. As you walk over the final crest, the hole transforms from tree-lined to open-planned. And there it is, Amen Corner spread out in front of you in all its glory — the 12th tee and green to the right, and the par-5 13th stretching into the distance.

After a solid drive, I had yards to the pin. My caddie handed me my 9-iron and told me to aim at the right edge of the green. I did as instructed, the ball caught the right fringe and cruised down towards the flag. My foot birdie putt grazed the hole and I tapped in for an easy par. On the other, it just seems, well, so innocuous.

After all, how difficult can a slightly downhill yard hole really be? In true amateur style, I opted for a 7-iron in anticipation of a slight mishit. Instead I striped it to the back fringe, from where I three-putted down the slope. Still, what would Francesco Molinari and Brooks Koepka have given for a bogey the day before? It was at this hole where I appreciated for the first time the vast disparity in length now between tour pros and amateurs.

Playing off the member tees, which were some 40 yards forward of the tips, I hit a best-of-the-day drive that barely made it to the corner of the dog-leg.

A solid 4-hybrid up the right side of the fairway left me a yard wedge into the green.