The Masters

The Mahalo Top 7

Hole #1: Tea Olive - 455 yards, Par 4
Hole #2: Pink Dogwood - 575 yards, Par 5
Hole #3: Flowering Peach - 350 yards, Par 4
Hole #4: Flowering Crab Apple - 240 yards, Par 3
Hole #5: Magnolia - 455 yards, Par 4
Hole #6: Juniper - 180 yards, Par 3
Hole #7: Pampas - 450 yards, Par 4
Hole #8: Yellow Jasmine - 570 yards, Par 5
Hole #9: Carolina Cherry - 460 yards, Par 4
- The front doesn't get as much publicity, but it is still one of the most beautiful and yet challenging stretches of front nine any golfer will play. What jumps out at those playing it the first time around is the bunkers, not only in so much as there seem to be fewer than the average course, but the exact unforgivingness of their placement. The pair of par threes (4 & 6) must be capitalized upon.

Hole #11: White Dogwood - 505 yards, Par 4
Hole #12: Golden Bell - 155 yards, Par 3
Hole #13: Azalea - 510 yards, Par 5
- In 1958, Herbert Warren Wind, a writer for Sports Illustrated, was covering the tournament. In an attempt to define these three holes, where the fortunes of the tournament swung in favor of Arnold Palmer, he borrowed part of the name of a jazz record titled 'Shouting at Amen Corner'. Thus the coining of the phrase.

Hole #14: Chinese Fir - 440 yards, Par 4
Hole #15: Firethorn - 530 yards, Par 5
Hole #16: Redbud - 170 yards, Par 3
- This is one of the most famous holes in golf, primarily for two signature moments. In 1986, Jack Nicklaus slowly rolled in a long, sloping putt, and went from having a solid round to taking the lead with two holes to play. At age 46, he wound up winning his sixth and final championship. Then in 2005, after landing his tee shot off the green, Tiger Woods chipped his second shot which rolled to within an eyelash of the cup, and after sitting precariously on the edge of the hole for a few seconds, fell in for a dramatic birdie. The shot propelled Woods to his fourth title.

Hole #17: Nandina - 440 yards, Par 4
Hole #18: Holly - 465 yards, Par 4
- There have been many memorable celebratory moments at this finishing hole, but perhaps none more emotional than these two: in 1995, less than a week after burying his mentor Harvey Penick, Ben Crenshaw sank his championship winning putt and immediately broke down crying in the arms of his caddy; and in 1997, when Tiger Woods became the first non-Caucasian male to win the championship (at a club that for many years did not allow a minority members) and begin his era of dominance over the sport.