Show B4 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday April 6 2003 different kind of A Woods goes after 4th title as Augusta braces for wild 1 Augusta National Augusta GeorgiaaAprfl T R y 0 - ' ' R U £: S'VW-'tl- V 10-1- 3 ofpkiaa arealaitng to matun on tie 1104 dda of tie trtnray putikx) oouUgoMo the trass Mort playara aM opt torSwoodto Inside the gates is another chance to make history Outside the gates there may be chaos “It’s going to be a joke trying to get into the tournament” tire two-tim- e defending champion said “Maybe I’ll try to parachute in” Clearly this is shaping up to be a Masters like no other At least two groups plan to protest the membership at Augusta National Others plan to protest uphiho The green can be reached' kitaosWiagooddrtvsbut a pond guards tie Irani and Vne la a bunker to tie right Osne 8sram mads a doubtoea0s kom tie falnmy In 1935 tw shot tiat wi attempt Tiger player This year history of tie Marten to ever tveepeei at Augusta NafcnsL and Nick Faldo ) Only two other players - Jack Nicktous to become the Ifcst Woods 2 7290 yards Par 5 575 Adogiaglaft that can be leached In two by 72 hoiee of stroke play sudden death playoff t necessary Purse To be determined ($55 million In 2002) FWd 94 players Including flvaamateun tie big In the (1965-66- - even had a chance (1969-90- ) against the protesters including n a fjac- ti011 of Ku Klux Klan who put lie Maalan on tie map First-- and second round coverage (al tmae Eastern) 4 pm to 6:30 pm 8 pm to 1050 pm (replay) USA Network d coverage April 12 330 pm to 6:30 pm C88 ' Fourth-roun- d coverage 16 10-1- 1 April TMrd-roun- Apr1l13 2:30 pm to 7 pm 170 CBS Thahotola played andrsly bunker on the one-ma- lyaGonwre) 6 play butt difficult to reach the dope that nw now motwn Ik Green guarded by two bunker In front lists Woods as his favorite golfer Attention has shifted from the raging colors of the and spring towering Georgia picket signs pines to for a protest against an exclusive membership that is no longer secret except that they wear green jackets hand-paint- ed avenlusdy bands to tha toft: TWO 9 bunktrtguanM Ihtritftaktoand ti§ grain riopit lyMMyiwii Par 4 Yard 460 180 Anrtevatodtoato a large green will three Her with Ike shot should be aimed down tie right side lor a good angle marking the three level Getting dose to tie hois Is Into lha green which features two large bunkers to the left Any approach that Is short could spin konbutrsdfficudto gauge ths wind Radis Creak i In Iront of die shrttow green iridi two bunkers behind it thetapshetof tw green lor two 7 holt locations 13 Par 4 410 10 The tae shot Is through a chute of of the fairway into 8 Mgrn slops Short iron to a green surrounded by live bunkers all of them making it difficdt to get par rd 69-wo- rd ut SOURCE: AuguUa 8 ' loRasSCrsek Par 4 Yarda 465 winds in front of the grsen and behind the pulling surface are tour bunkers From toe to grean ' there are about 1600 azaleas toughMthote last year ihto uphrtdo0sg J ngiipiQiNM offthataeby 14 straystolha right ' Amiddto Irani Par 4 Yarda 440 K has a bunker rsqubedtoa Pm right side The hole is uphill 4 Yards 490 ' Johnson saw Phi Micketson hit wedge kilo the green in 2001 ' knew the lengthening of trouble left of the green No bankers around the green just severe green that kifcontandto the right The only hols on the course wfhoula bunker Even I die drive avoids trees on both skies of 8- the fairway a 7-Irani needed for a green wlh severe contours that feed die be! to the right This is where chairman Hootie and features Augusta was die Past champions The tost 10 player to wear the green jacket at Augusta 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 right move: Amen Comer starts hers A pond guards the green to the left and a bunker is to the back mounding ri04Mostbalouttoa swale short and ri04 of die green Tiger Woods 'TigerWoods Vijay Singh Joan Marta Otozabal Mark O'Meara Tlgar Woods Nick Fakto Ben Crenshaw Jom " Marti Oitoizirtbfri Bernhard Langar NiSanal Go Count timetable of its choosing certainly “not at the point of a bayonet” Suddenly the Masters became more than green jackets slick greens Rae’s Creek and Amen Corner It became a public relations battle between the rights of a private club and the moral obligation of golf’s most falnous tournament Janzen leads BellSouth DULUTH Ga (AP) — Lee Janzen had a round that would make his sports psychologist proud He played it one shot at a tiro never realizing just how well he was doing until he added up his score Janzen surged! into the lead in the third round of the BellSouthjClas- sic on Saturday &feiii£ with a 5-’ under 3 1 on the bacfcnine for a 67 and atwohotlead over playing partner jfob Tway Janzen winlesk in five years-hai203 total ohihe rain- a softened TPC ai Sugarloaf-whichad played hard and fast jn the opening two rounds “You know what until I si mod mry scorecard I had no idea what Idid” Janzen said “That’s a spo psychologist’s dream fora pUycrtotell him he didn’t know he made those birdies : : rain caused a the (airway Difficult to save par from die bunker right of the 11 n important to avoid fie fairway bunker on the The biggest change to tie oourse the hole hasbeen ' lengthened 20 and the yard fairway bunkers extended 80 yards toward the green Bunkaisaia said to be so deep that players can only see the sky Green slopes to the front sets up players to go tor the green A tributary toll rtbowL Hass gat In Ihe way of a drive that An accurate drive Yards 435 A long hoi that can play shorter ll drives catch die stops in twodaap bunkers at ths Par 5 Yards 570 Par 4 An accurals tae shot to die center surface slopes from right to left Has played as the most diffiait hole in Masters history Mid-t- o 5 510 oldie fairway Deep bunker protects nght side of the green with another bunker left long iron at the tee but dub selection is crucial because of the' deceptive wind Green dopes to the front ThsBssnhowerUe stands to the of die takway to about 196 yards from die toe requiring notfrar accurate lot shot The grssn to protected by two bunkers In the front Par 5 Par 4 Yarda 495 Georgia pine played to the open the club’s membership to women so that it doesn’t become an “issue” for the Masters and its sponsors Johnson felt threatened and came but swinging 932-wostateIn a three-pag- e ment to the media — compared with letter to a Burk-he predicted an all-ocam- paign by the NCWO to pressure Augusta National into inviting a female member He vowed that the club would act as always — on its own with a Pethsps die moat famous par 3 In golf and die shortest hole at Augusta Club selection can range from Won to a 9- recommended aflattsrapoton from right to left Most players hit Iron off the lee to stay short of four bunkers on left side number of reasons” Players who once spoke of Augus-ta National in reverential tones now use words like “zoo" and “circus" “All the peripheral stuff is going to detract a lot from the tournament" Nick Price said “It’s bad Maybe Thursday everything will be forgotten and we’ll be on our way But we’re getting away from golf and that's sad” The peripheral stuff can be traced to June 12 when Burk sent Augusta National chairman Hootie Johnson a foreboding letter that urged him to right to tod Pais fcom distop shad of dwgrssn on Sunday wffibsiara some 60 yards back Into tie One of the bait par 4a in got a hole that hamt been touched In 21 years Big hitter can drive the grant but not : many even try because of al the double surrounding the green thatsiopes severely and hnswer to “Sir” The eyes will not be on who drives through the gates of Magnolia Lane but whether Martha Burk and her National Council of Women’s Organizations marches outside them The Masters which only allowed four minutes of television commer- cials every hour will make it even cozier for couch potatoes — the first commercial-fre- e sporting event on network television The honorary siarters are gone Arnold Palmer is back and so is Jack Nicklaus And in case anyone has forgotten Woods will try to become the first player to win three straight Masters championships when play begins on Thursday “It’s become not just about a golf tournament anymore" Woods said “That’s where it’s gotten to now It used to be the first major of the year and everyone looked forward to that Now it’s not that anymore for a 1 premium on accuracy all-ma- le delay tf Heavy about an hour Saturday morning E Ji Any drive too tor to amid boat on Mb er T - a chute ce MAS h '"t v of (hate ng cMISTERS t 7 6 E ' AtfoNdogtog rigfriwHia dsap Bunker AUGUSTA Ga (AP) — Tiger Woods returns to Augusta National with his size 42-logreen jacket the best game in golf and a para- as H T requiring three-senten- x -- Johnson canceled the Masters’ television sponsors to keep them out of the fray Burk went after CEOs of major corporations who are Augusta members and two of them resigned Nine months later there is no winner and the stalemate continues At least one winner will be declared Sunday evening and most eyes are oh Woods Since the tournament began in 1934 only two other players have wop the Masters in consecutive years — Nicklaus (1963-6and Nick Neither came close’ Faldo (1989-90- ) io winning three in a row Nicklaus missing lire cut Faldo tying for 12th Neither dominated their peers quite like Woods “He does not have to play his best to win” said Nicklaus! who won a record six times “I didn’t have to play my best to win either I thought if I played decent golf I was going to be hard to beat If I played well I didn’t think 1 would get beat “I would think he feels the same 6) before the leaders teed off and (he weather left the course vulnerable “It was tough to adjust” TVvay said “The greens you see what a difference a day makes They went from rock hard to very soft” losTway mired in an eight-yethe lead most of sneak held the ing day before a bogey oh No 17 He rallied back with a birdie on the last hole shooting 69 tostay wjthin two Shots of the lead “Tm excited” TVvay said “Td like to give myself a chance The more ar times I get there the more comfortable I’ll geL It’s a relearning process of getting in that winner’s cinde” The two leaders will be joined in the final group Sunday by Tom Per-niJr who had 66 foe a 206 total’ Hank Knehne who got into the toupuunentearlicr in the week on a sponsor’s exemption shot a 67 and trailed Janzeir by four shots ce ’ way’K Woods certainly knows how to rise to the occasion Two years ago he won the Masters over Phil Mickelson and David Duval to become the first professional to win four straight majors For an encore in 2002 he built a lead going into the back nine and watched a world-clas- s collection of challengers self-destru- ct “He wants the golf record book to just have one name” Faldo said “It’s as simple as that I’m sure that’s what motivates him — to be the first one to win three in a row” Two months off for knee surgery didn’t stop him from winning three of his first five tournaments Even with food poisoning he won Bay Hill by 11 shots Now comes the tournament he has been gearing up for since August-“It’important to me to win that one” Woods said “Jack and Nick were the only other guys so I could put myself in company where no one has been” He figures to get some competition from Davis Love III and Ernie Els e winners on the PGA both Tour this year Mickelson returns from taking a month off while his first son was born All of them will be chasing s two-tim- Woods “He’s superhuman ” Brad Faxon stid “We keep hearing Jack Nick- laus Arnold Palmer ami Gary Player say he doesn’t have the same sort of competition they had and I have to laugh Tiger would have beaten any of those guys” Woods gets a crack at all of than in the Masters Nicklaus returns to the Masters for the 43rd time under no illusions that can win Still he a believes a top-1- 0 finish is not out of the question if he plays well Arnie’i Army marched alongside Palmer for what was supposed to be one final time last year only to learn he has changed his mind and will play again after Augusta scrapped its new policy banning former champions from playing after they turn 65 Palmer and Nicklaus are the only put Masters champions'invited to join Augusta National and they have been strangely silent on whether fire club should have women Woods sees it both ways He would like to see a female member but he said he respects fee right of a private club to invite whomever it wants That led The New York Times to ask him to skip fee Masters in protest Burk was so disappointed in Woods riding the fence that she said “If others had taken that view he’d be a caddie at Augusta” Btirk plans her protest on Saturday during fee third round It was not clear where she would be allowed to ' demonstrate only that she will have company ' The Rev Jesse Jackson and his RainbowPUSH Coalition have permits to protest along wife a single member of the Ku Klux Klan which supports Augusta National a group protesting Jackson and his coalition and a group opposed to Burk "It’s going to be an absolute joke just a zoo” Woods said “I think a lot of us players are really going to enjoy getting inside the ropes rad playing and not having to deal wife a lot of this stuff” j |