Key To Winning The Masters by Mark Crossfield

Mark Crossfield looks at the most important areas to winning The Masters at Augusta National. He starts off discussing how the greens are enormous and how that will mean the players greens in regulation statistics should be really good. How ever in reality just hitting the greens is the start of the challenge, the greens have such extreme undulations that the players break the greens up into sections.

The likes of Rory Mcilroy and Jordan Spieth will divide the greens up into sub greens to narrow their targeting and aim down. Then Mark moves onto the fairways and how they have so much space to hit their drives. This is the same situation with the greens, you might have a lot of space to hit the ball but to get close to the pin positions you have to be hitting form the optimal positions on the fairways.

Then you have to have seriou nerves on the greens. As you have seen with Ernie Els there are no gimmies from any distance.colin montgomerie said a very interesting Statistic on Sky Sports Golf on the Friday of the Masters that 85% of putts come up short or the players don’t allow enough break.