The winner of this year of masters will have to do 1 thing well, says Peter Kostis and Gary McCord.
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This article was first published in the April 2025 edition of Golf Magazine.
Like most, Peter and Gary favor scottie to keep his green jacket. But it won’t be a walk in the park.
Peter heard: The masters made a adjustment this year to allow the qualification by Liv Tour. I look forward to finally seeing you more of the best players in the world to compete against each other. And I look forward to someone from Liv to play well. I really think they want to justify their existence yet. There is still little hostility about how they have been treated by golf all over the world. I’m waiting for the Royale battle.
Gary McCord: This will be fun to see. I have Strict Make it finally done? He is playing quite well these days.
Pk: He is my sentimental choice because I want to see him win Grand Slam. But the thing that Rory is fighting is that it hits very little fades and a lot of attraction. You thought you had to draw it around Augusta NationalAnd that may have been true on Persimmon Day, but no more. You have to hit it up and be able to check your yards.
Gm: Have you seen someone do it better than Scottie Scheffler? I mean only high, gentle and, if he has 176, well, he will hit him 176. If he has 210, it will be 210. That’s hard to defeat in that golf course.
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Pk: Yes, I’m amazed at that. He has really worked, really difficult in that aspect of his game. This is what Jack Nicklaus made better than anyone in masters. He plotted his way around that golf course. He checked the yards and, you know, plus or minus one or two yards is all you have in those greens in Augusta often. If you can’t control your golf ball so hard, then you don’t have to get a stake. Your placement is set by your ability to place the ball in the right green part for a certain PIN placement. Without this, you will not have
Many really good bird opportunities.
Gm: It is certainly a second golf course. And these days, who controls the ball better than Scheffler?
Pk: No one. Is like Bernhard Langer Back in the day. In his two masters he wins, I am not sure he had a three-putt in one of them. But it didn’t happen because he put it great, though he definitely put it very well. It is said that he controlled his golf ball in green and placed it in the right place for a particular hole place. So, he had an opportunity to be a little more aggressive and less patter. You can hit 18
The greens in Augusta and have seven three to three putes if you put it in the wrong place.
