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Check out this great shot by J.D. Cuban Dom Furore accompanying John Hawkins' Golf World Masters game story.

 

 
See, there is a positive behind all of that tree planting. We get cool images like this. 

Comments

[Iggy]

Four paramount escape artists in Arnie, Lee Buck, Seve, and Tiger. What thrills.

[cubes]

Sorry, but it's incorrectly credited. It was taken by Dom Furore.

[Michael]

Fixed!

[Ky Laffoon's Ghost]

Actually, isn't that a photograph of Tiger escaping up the 10th fairway on the way to his par at 18 on Friday. Sorry, but those trees, if not that particular tree, have been there since the course opened.

[Geoff]

Ky,
Some of the most significant tree planting by the club in recent years has been on the right of 18. Sorry, not buying it!

[Michael]

I'm going with Dom's description versus Ky inferring that he can identify a particular tree of which there are how many?

[RM]

Where does Dom say this photo was taken?

The photo description says "Wayward drives on 18 put Woods in tough spots, such as the one that forced him to play down No. 10 Friday."

[Ky Laffoon's Ghost]

Since I haven't been to the Masters in a good while I will defer to Geoff's knowledge about tree planting between 10 and 18. Still, it has always been an iffy proposition if you faded your tee shot into that forest from the 18th tee, which has been there since I first attended a Masters a long time ago. Not only are the pine trees trouble there, but the scoreboard and the large live oak are potentially in the way, too (although I suppose you might get line-of-site relief from the scoreboard). Forgive my error, but I thought that the trees that "we" have been primarily discussing for the past several years are those to the right of 11, near the old members' tee (you know, where Tiger broke his 4-iron last year), those between (actually, in) the landing area on 15 and the 17th fairway, and those to the left of the 7th fairway, where IIRC Jackie Nicklaus pointed out that his dad would have been dead in 1986 had the trees been there.

[kudzu]

sorry not to have anything to say about trees, but that really is a super-amazing shot, considering that photogs aren't allowed inside the ropes at ANGC. its one-of-a-kindness absolutely depends on a guy hitting it outside the ropes, and then playing it not back into the proper fairway, but in the other direction! there's no other way the ball could ever get that close to a camera at that particular course.

[Dom]

Lucky shot...When I got into position it never occurred to me he would play it down #10, if so I would have never been in that spot. As I recall Robert Beck from SI and myself were the only photogs on that side near him, usually the wrong side to be on #18. I think we were both surprised he hit that shot, and that he didn't ask us to move.