Curtis Strange - "Playing Augusta" SHORT TRACK

Curtis Strange

Intro Music 0:07

Straight down the middle.

SPEAKER_02 0:10

It went straight down the middle. Then it started. I gotta ask you, Bruce. How did you do there?

Mike Gonzalez 0:18

So Curtis, I'll I'll answer your question. Uh Bruce Devil and the Masters. Three top fives, five top tens, ten top twenties. He made 15 consecutive cuts, which is tied for ninth on the all-time list. And uh for many years he was uh the answer to the trivia question. Who was the only guy to ever make an albatross besides Gene Sarazen?

SPEAKER_03 0:49

What hole? Eight. Oh, you were always so long anyway. You can get it on there easily. You know the damn you know the guys are hitting five irons in there. I laid I laid up with a four iron.

SPEAKER_04 1:07

Not only that, two irons. They're playing it th they're playing it 35, 40 yards longer than the way we played it. And they're hitting five irons in there. It's a joke.

SPEAKER_03 1:17

I know. I didn't that's one of those holes I kind of didn't want to hit a good one because I didn't want to have to hit a three wood by those on the left. I'd just soon go. I just want to hit a four wood out to the right. Pitch it. Figured I could pitch it well enough to make birdie. But uh it's like at 13. 13 was an interesting hole because if you and I hit a good one, we'd have a four-wood or two iron into that hole. Right. Well, I'd much rather have a four wood.

SPEAKER_04 1:45

Me too.

SPEAKER_03 1:46

But I but I'd much rather hit a neck off the T and have to lay up so I didn't bring both into the equation. That's true. So it's uh it's what makes the golf course so so great in the day. Uh it still is great, yeah, but some of the clubs they hit in there are so much shorter than what we did. You know, I I said to um I said to somebody I was walking this year in a practice round, uh, it was Tommy Fleetwood or somebody, and he hit it on five and he hit like an eight iron in there from the back tee. And I said, You son of a gun, if you'd be playing, we'll see, we'll see how good you really are if you were playing back there where I was playing from.

SPEAKER_04 2:28

Hitting a three and a four iron in there.

SPEAKER_03 2:31

Yeah, three, four, or five. If I ever had a six iron into five, I felt like I was drooling for making Bernie. Six iron. You know, it was it was it was it was into it was and then it was so much harder and faster than anything we'd ever played. It was it was a shock to the system when you went to play Augusta National. It was I never felt comfortable until the weekend there because of the speed of the greens. They were they were unbelievable.

Mike Gonzalez 3:02

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Intro Music 3:23

Whack down the fairway. It went smack down the fairway. Then it started to slice, just smidge off line. It headed for two, but it bounced off nine. My caddy says long as you're still in the state, you're okay. Yes, it went straight down the middle, quite away.