Augusta National Golf Club will be a little longer for this year\u2019s Masters.<\/p>\n
In the latest media guide released on Tuesday, the tournament announced that the par-4 17th hole will be extended 10 yards, from 440 to 450, increasing the total course yardage to 7,565 yards.<\/p>\n
In making the change, 12 yards were taken away from the front of the tee box and the tee marker relocated.<\/p>\n
The last significant course adjustment came two years ago, when 10 yards were added to the par-5 second hole. The 17th hole was last lengthened in 2006 when 10-15 yards were added, though the last significant change to the hole came in 2014 when the Eisenhower Tree was removed following damage sustained in an ice storm.<\/p>\n
Last year, No. 17 played as the fourth toughest hole, averaging 4.23 strokes. Historically, it\u2019s played to a 4.164 average, making it the eighth toughest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Augusta National Golf Club will be a little longer for this year\u2019s Masters. In the latest media guide…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-474587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}