Now even the 531-yard tees seem obsolete.
That would force players to hit 7-irons into the green rather than wedges.īut when the LPGA experimented with the short tees, players started making eagles, fans were excited and the idea of longer tees quietly went away. With everyone laying up and hitting wedges into the green, there was some debate that rather than moving the tees up to 485 yards, the tees should be moved back to about 570 yards. In the 1970s and even into the 1980s, no players really tried to reach the green in two. The idea of balls trickling down the slope behind the green and into the water– think about the front of the 15th hole at Augusta National in the Masters - is just the latest evolution of the most famous closing hole in women’s golf. Henderson eventually made par on the hole.īy Friday morning, with a stiff breeze in the players’ faces, Mother Nature had taken the decision out of the hands of the golfers, making the par-5 a true three-shot hole. Brooke Henderson missed the green long and left but stayed on the island in the short rough. One, Yuka Saso, had a great look for eagle but missed a 10-foot putt. Of the three who went for the green, all three held the green. On a rare desert day without the hint of a breeze, three players went for the green in two shots, six players laid up. Take, for example, the first nine golfers who played the hole Thursday morning. With no backstop, a firm putting surface and shaved slopes surrounding the green, the 18th has taken on a new life. (Desert Sun photo) This might be the future of the holeīut in the crazy pandemic world where we are all looking to get back to normal, an unadorned island green at the ANA Inspiration might well be the new normal. The 18th hole at the Dinah Shore Tournament Course, host of the ANA Inspiration. It makes you think, because that water comes up pretty quickly behind the green.” “I had the perfect distance today but didn’t like my lie, and before I would’ve just blown it back past the back into the grandstand,” Michelle Wie West said. So I would just take it as a three-shot.” So like even though I can get it there, the thing is it’s not going to stop.
We decided not to go for it because the greens are pretty hard,” said Shanshan Feng. The answer to the question go for it in two or lay up depends on the player, as some first-round quotes point out. So now the hole is 485 yards for each round, putting players’ minds and hearts to the test as much as their games. So did the idea that from 531 yards, the hole is unreachable for all put a handful of players, but at 485 yards, more than half of the field might take a run at the island in two. The Big Blue Wall stopped some balls from going into the water behind the green last September, and that caught a lot of people’s attention. It all dates back to the Big Blue Wall, the tournament’s attempt to recreate the grandstand backstop on the island last year when a grandstand wasn’t needed because no fans were allowed at the event because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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