Jones Still A Presence At Augusta

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: April 7, 1996 | Copyright information

AUGUSTA, Ga. There is an eerie sense of history at Augusta National Golf Club, an unseen intrusion of the past on the present.

How else do you explain what happens there?

From Gene Sarazen's double-eagle in 1935 - in the second Masters - through Ben Crenshaw's teary victory last year, it has been as though the winner's swings were made on a more perfect plane, his shots guided by a higher hand. Something good governs play at Augusta, the perfect course planned to be that way...

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