Augusta National Golf Club chairman Fred Ridley doesn't foresee a scenario in which the club will host a tournament for LPGA Tour and other women's pro golfers.
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- While Augusta National Golf Club chairman Fred Ridley commended the success of the five-year-old Augusta National Women's Amateur tournament, he doesn't foresee a scenario in which the club will host a tournament for LPGA Tour and other women's professional golfers.
"here are some fundamental difficulties in that," Ridley said during a news conference Wednesday."We happily were able to find a way to have a competition for juniors and a competition for women amateurs sort of wrapped around the Masters tournament, and it just seems to fit really well. "We really have a limited period of time we could play any additional event," Ridley said."We close in the third week of May. Then you add the element of ... sort of the mystique and the magic. And, you know, we need to make sure that we really respect the mystique and the magic of the Masters, so we would have to think long and hard to have another golf tournament."proposed by the United States Golf Association and The R&A. The ruling bodies announced Dec.
"Adding distance to the Augusta National golf course has become standard operation over the past two decades," Ridley said."For almost 70 years, the Masters was played at just over 6,900 yards. Today the course measures 7,550 yards from the markers, and we may well play one of the tournament rounds this year at more than 7,600 yards.
"We have some more room, but we don't have a lot," Ridley said."So I'm holding to that 8,000-yard red line, and I just hope we never get there." Ridley said Augusta National believes OWGR is a"legitimate determiner of who the best players in the game are."
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