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Originally Posted by T@T
Yes they can..grow the rough!
Augusta's rough is a 1/2 inch joke, they use to reley on the tough greens but with todays ball and club technology that type of "rough" makes zero difference in the spin and they can hold the greens even with a wood, go back and look at some film from 30 years ago and you'll see what I mean.
Spieth didn't hit a fairway today until hole 13, if this was a US Open he would have been 6-7 over instead of 2 under for the day.
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I was actually talking about the softer than normal conditions (i.e. Augusta can't control how much rain it receives). Historically, the greens are Augusta's defense against high scoring and the addition of "rough" (I agree it is not much) didn't happen until 1999 so when rain softens up the greens, scoring is going to be lower than previous events.
That was Tiger who didn't hit a fairway until the 13th hole too.