Hole 3 – Flowering Peach
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PAR 4 – 350 YARDS
For most it’s a 3-iron off the tee leaving a wedge in. If the pin’s back right, you might take a driver down into the swale leaving a chip up the green.
Tricky shot in because the wind swirls about and it’s longer to carry to the back left than the back right.
BILLY FOSTER REMEMBERS: “Seve was the best on-course strategist of all the players I’ve carried for round Augusta, but then again he was a two-time winner and had lots of experience. I’ve caddied for Darren Clarke, Thomas Björn, Sergio Garcia and once with David Frost, but Seve was the best thinker.”
PETER ALLISS: “This is one of the most underrated holes on the course and has a clover-leaf green. It looks quite innocuous, but it’s really not. People can get complacent on this hole thinking they’ve just got a flick for the second shot, but with the way the green is contoured if you get a bit of spin at the wrong time you can end up with a near impossible pitch.”
