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Show B-7 The Park Record Wed/Thurs/Fri, April 11-13, 2007 Masters becoming like U.S. Open? Tell me. What shots will we remember from the first 36 holes of MediaNews Group Wire Service the 2007 Masters? Augusta, Ga. - Glamour shots. Brett Wetterich (69-73) and That's why everybody loves the South African Tim Clark (71-71) Masters. share the lead at 2-under-par 142. Think about it. Gene Sarazen's That's the highest leading score 4-wood shot to the 15th hole, over after 36 holes since 1982, when Rae's Creek, for double eagle; and Craig Stadler and Curtis Strange all the shots on the back nine - 30 were the front-runners at par 144. by Jack Nicklaus in 1986. The tee Only one other golfer. - shot by Fred Couples in 1992 hang- Augusta native Vaughn Taylor (72) ing on the bank at the 12th hole - is under par at 143. Four golfers against all odds, and Tiger Woods' are at par: Vijay Singh (71), Justin outrageous chip at the 16th two Rose (75), Jerry Kelly (69) and years ago. Zach Johnson (73), who dropped That's just four examples, and shots on the last three holes or we know there haye been countless would have had the lead. others in the 71 years since Bobby Twenty-three golfers . were Jones and Cliff Roberts decided to under par last year after 36 holes have an invitational golf tourna- and 10 others at par. ment at their new place in Augusta. They wanted fast and firm, and We remember many more shots - they have it. Augusta National hasmostly good and even some bad - n't been this dry since 1999. from the major championship at "Except they added 500 yards, a Augusta National Golf Club than billion trees and rough," said all the other majors combined. Woods, a four-time winner who That's what made the Masters: shot 74 and is at 3-over 147. the uncanny shots, the brilliant Woods, five shots behind the shots. The curling, darting, speed- leaders and tied for 15th, hit a shot ing putts and careening chips. left-handed. Maybe we'll rememBy VARTAN KUPELIAN ber that if he wins. Defending champion Phil Mickelson had a walk on the wild side, but when it was over, he still was in with a chance. He shot 73 for 149. The equation has changed. Five hundred yards, plus a billion trees, plus rough when it is fast and firm equals bogeys and worse. The birdies and eagles, and all those back-nine charges and stupendous roars from the patrons greeting the heroics, are loo quickly becoming a memory. It's no longer about going low in the Masters, not at all. "Level par is a good score here," said David Howell, who shot 75145. "You have to try and limit the damage when you can." There is no opportunity to attack, Howell said. "You can play ultra-defensive. It is going to be as much through great course management and short game as it is hitting great shots." It's no longer about attacking Augusta National with courageous intents. It's about trying to keep what you have, above all, your sanity. "The greens are getting thirsty," said Mark Calcavecchia, who knows only one speed on a golf course - full ahead. "A couple (of greens) are dead." If that's the case, the greens are not going alone. Calcavecchia had this to say about any golfer who finishes 72 holes under par: "He will win - I'll guarantee you that." Lee Westwood has decided he no longer likes Augusta National. "Not really." he said. "Not any more. It just asks too many questions that there is no answer to." Jim Furyk won the U.S. Open in 2003. He knows these conditions. What he didn't know until Friday is this: "Honestly, I don't think I can strike it as well as I did." Furyk is at 2-over 146 after a solid 71, a number worthy of his best al Shinnecock or Oakmont or maybe some other U.S. Open venue but not at Augusta National when he hits it so pure all the way around. The Masters was better when it was the Masters and not the U.S. Open. Climbers now witnesses to global warming BEND, Ore. (AP) Mountaineers are bringing back firsthand accounts of vanishing glaciers, melting ice routes, crumbling rock formations and flood-prone lakes where glaciers once rose. The observations are transforming a growing number of alpine and ice climbers, some of whom have scientific training, into eyewitnesses of global warming. Increasingly, they are deciding not to leave it to scientists to tell the entire story. "I personally have done a bunch of ice climbs around the world that no longer exist," said Yvon Chouinard, renowned climber, surfer and founder of Patagonia, Inc., an outdoor clothing and gear company that champions the environment. "I mean, I was aghast at the change." Chouinard pointed to recent trips where the ice had all but disappeared on the famous Diamond Couloir of 16,897-foot Mount Kenya, and snow was absent at low elevations on 4,409-foot Ben Nevis, Britain's highest peak, in the Highlands of northwest Scotland. He sees a role for climbers in debating climate change, even if their chronicles are unscientific. "Most people don't care whether the ice goes or not, the kind of ice that we climb on and stuff," he said. But climbers' stories, he added, can "make it personal, instead of just scientists talking about it. Telling per- sonal stories might hit home to some people." Alpine climbers are worrying about the loss of classic routes and potential new lines up mountains that are melting, from the Cascades in the Pacific Northwest and the Alps in Europe to the Andes in South America and the Himalaya in Asia. Their anecdotes often reflect what science isfinding,but with stories and pictures from places where most scientists arent able to .reach. "As climbers we see these places, we go all over the world," Mark Bowen, a climber and physicist who wrote a book on climate and mountains, told the American Alpine Club at its annual meeting in Bend. "We're in touch with the natural world like few people are. We can see the changes better than most people can," he said. Scientists and diplomats at an international conference in Belgium predicted on Friday that global warming would turn many glaciers to lakes and cause rock avalanches because offrozenground melting up high. People living in mountain areas can expect more risk offloodsby glacial lakes. Switzerland's Matterhorn had to be closed to some climbing at times because of recent summer rockfall attributed to global warming and its Great Aletsch Glacier - Europe's largest - has retreated a couple miles from its peak of 14 miles in length in 1860. The Swiss Alps' icy soil that glues its rock faces together is thawing, causing instability. At Montana's Glacier National Park, glaciers are vanishing like the storied snows of Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro. 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