Hole 2
Par 5, 575 Yards
This second hole is a dogled left, reachable in two by the longest drivers. For the shorter hitters, it's one of the more difficult drives. Many players will choose a 3-wood to help avoid the left bunker on their first shot, while large, deep greenside bunkers take special attention on the second shot.
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The Augusta Chronicle
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How Nick Price plays this hole
1. With the new tee, I think the drive is a lot easier now than it used to be because you're aiming farther right toward the bunker. I try and draw it a little bit off that bunker.
2. If it's not reachable, I try to lay up to a yardage where I won't hit the sand wedge too hard and spin it back. If the pin is back left, I want to go to the extreme right of the fairway and if it's back right I want to get extreme left. The bunker on the front right is never a bad play if you can reach it and run it right up the face.
3. It's the kind of hole where you're never disappointed to make five, but you feel like if you don't make four there you've maybe lost a shot to the field. But early in the round if you get sloppy on it you might get bogey.
Historical Note
Price has one set of crystal goblets for a chip-in eagle on No. 2 in 1999, but it was his birdie in the third round in 1986 that erased an opening bogey and propelled him to a course-record 63.
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