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THE BATTAUoJ
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Television • April 11-14
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• Thursday-Friday, 4 p.m. to
6:30 p.m., 8 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
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• Saturday, 3:30 p.m. to
6:30 p.m.; Sunday, 2:30 p.m.
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Format: 72 holes of stroke play, suddden death
playoff if necessary.
Purse: to be determined ($5.6 million in 2001).
Field: 89 players, including five amateurs.
Defending champion: Tiger Woods
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Last year: Woods held off his two chief rivals, Daw!
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jacket and become the first man in history to swee|p en irig two i
the four professional major championships. Woods I e55 carded a
closed with a 3-under 69 and finished at 272.
SOURCE: Augusta National Q.C.
New look at Augusta
Despite new changes to golf course. Tiger Woods
still odds-on favorite to win at the Masters
AUGUSTA. Ga. (AP)
Tiger Woods walked briskly out
of the Augusta National club
house Tuesday morning and was
headed for the First tee, unaware
of a small problem his caddie
had already solved.
A wooden clock at the tee box
told golfers the course would
open at 8, but it was only 7:25.
Steve Williams simply
moved the hands back a half-
hour, and when Woods arrived at
7:28, the defending champion
flicked the big hand back two
more minutes. Then he teed up
his ball and launched a drive that
landed safely just left of the
massive fairway bunker.
Yes, it is always Tiger Time at
the Masters.
Most of the focus at the 66th
Masters is the renovation of
Augusta National, which
stretched the course by 285 yards
and changed half of the holes.
What has not changed is the
man to beat.
“The player to look at is the No.
1 player ranked in the world —
Tiger,” Phil Mickelson said. “He’s
the guy that everybody has got to
watch out for. And given his length
and accuracy and distance control,
he’s going to be the guy to beat.”
So, what else is new?
Woods set 20 records when he
won the Masters in his profession
al debut in 1997, including the 72-
hole scoring record (270) and the
margin of victory (12 strokes).
Even more stunning was his
performance last year, when he
became the first player to sweep
the four professional majors by
holding off David Duval and
Mickelson on the back nine for a
two-stroke victory.
When the Masters begins
Thursday, Woods will try to join
Jack Nicklaus and Nick Faldo
as the only repeat winners at
Augusta National.
A repeat victory will not be
the same as a repeat perfonn-
ance. Woods figured that out
Tuesday morning when he hit an
8-iron into the first green; in past
years, a drive that pure on the
opening hole would have left
him only a sand wedge.
Is it harder? Certainly. Some
players believe the scores will be
as many as three strokes higher a
round because of the longer clubs
required to hit into greens that are
just as slick and contoured as ever.
It puts a huge
premium on driving
the hall, and no
matter who wins
this tournament,
their short game is
going to be tested.
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— Tiger Woods
Does that make it easier for
the big hitters such as Woods,
Mickelson and Duval?
“The golf course definitely
favors a guy that hits the ball
farther,” Woods said. “But you
have to hit the ball straight, too.
It puts a huge premium on driv
ing the ball, and no matter who
wins this tournament, their short
game is going to be tested.”
That is an area that has held
Woods back this year.
When he won the Masters a
year ago, it was his 19th victory on
the PGA Tour in 38 tournaments,
an astounding rate of success.
Woods now comes into the
first major championship of the
year with last month’s Bay Hill
Invitational his only victory in
10 events dating to the World
Golf Championship at Firestone
in August.
The problem?
Woods is ranked 138th in
putting on the PGA Tour, All
those putts that kept falling dur
ing his record run through the
majors suddenly begun m/w/h?
the edge of the cup.
Still, Woods is far fromcoiv
cerned. He took two weeks oft
be fo re the M as te rs to attend the
wedding of a good friend m
Southern California and put the
finishing touches on his game
“I felt the practice sessions!
had at home were very, ver )
positive,” Woods said.
His swing coach, Butch
Harmon, could attest to that.
Hannon walked the practice
round with Woods on Tuesday
After watching him hit two ei
cate pitches to one ot the toug es
pin placements on No. 3, Hamw
turned and said, “This kid isgoil-
to be tough to beat this week.
Woods might have son
company. For all his darings
and unpredictable outcom ,
Mickelson has been a factor'
last three times he has P^W e ■
He pushed Woods at Bay ,
led at The Players Championsh
until a five-putt took hmi o
contention, and led during
weekend in Atlanta until a
putt on Saturday and a few
py mistakes in the final round
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who has never won a -
Mickelson seems poised top
himself in position again.
-It’s not as though ray
is going to inciease, ,
“My confidence ha ^ ‘ hefi0 lf
because I feel as thoug. 1
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