Player fury as Masters’ lengthy row rages on

THE controversy rages whether Augusta National’s powers-that-be have handed too much of an advantage to the game’s biggest hitters. That they have literally gone too far this time.

Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer have already gone on record as saying they think the stretching of six holes was not the wisest move ever taken at this Mecca of golf, with Nicklaus even stating: “They have ruined it from a tournament standpoint.”

The two legends are not competitors this week, but last year’s Players’ Championship winner Fred Funk is and, as one of the shortest hitters, comments: “I am frustrated with where the game is going. They are eliminating the majority of the field.”