SWEET 16?
The superlatives to describe 2020 have been many and, in some cases, excessively overused. Describing something as the new normal is just one of the in vogue ways to describe a bizarre year with little sense of normality.
However, the most common adjective to find its way into every news bulletin, politician’s press conference and almost every corner of the internet has been ‘unprecedented’.
And while most would be in agreement that the term has been used to the nth degree, there has been perhaps nothing in golf as unprecedented as the 2020 Masters Tournament this month.
Traditionally played during the first full week in April and as the first major of the year since long before the layout was ‘Tiger Proofed’, this year’s tournament will see the players taking on a course few, if any, will have experience with.
Yes, it is the same Augusta National Golf Club on Washington Rd, Augusta, where Woods has teed it up at 22 times and missed only one cut. However, the shift from April to November will likely see significant changes to how the course plays and the conditions.
Unlike each year when Spring in Georgia sees azaleas blooming and a layout that is kept to the best condition of any course around the world thanks to an unlimited budget, this year players will be visiting Bobby Jones and Alister MacKenzie’s design
