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Tiger Woods knows Augusta National like the back of his hand. The five-time Masters champion will make his 23rd Masters start next month and while he’s played a total of 86 competitive rounds on those hollow grounds, the total number of times he’s teed it up at Augusta is deep into the hundreds.
This year’s Masters will be unlike any other after being postponed from its regular spot on the calendar in April and pushed back into November. While it’s safe to assume that the majority of Woods’ rounds at Augusta National have come during the spring and summer, he has actually played the course in November albeit quite a long time ago.
With it obviously being colder in November, the ball won’t be flying as long as it would be during the regular hot and sticky temps we’re used to seeing at the Masters.
“The few times that I have played in November, it’s been the same. It’s been cold, ball doesn’t go very far, Woods said during his Tuesday news conference ahead of this week’s 2020 Zozo Championship.
“I normally have done it before some of the changes. You know, the last … the big change they made in, what, ’02, I guess it would be the fall of ’01, we went up there and it was driver, 3-wood into one. Eighteen was a driver, 3-wood. You know, it’s so different.”
While the temperatures will surely play a factor next month, Woods also alluded to the fact that if the wind starts blowing out of the North the course can become even longer for players.
While Augusta National hasn’t been considered one of the longer courses among major stops in quite some time now, we could see a totally different animal this time around.
[H/T Golfweek]