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Google Earth Views: The Masters at Augusta National

April 10, 2006 at 4:58 PM | 0 Comments

Augusta National @ 33.506, -82.018 on Google Earth

Golf purists say that even with the highest definition television set on the market you can't capture the awe inspiring beauty of Augusta National. We say--whatever golf hacks, we will stare at it from above, like we do everything else, and enjoy it.

Now you can recreate Tiger's muffed puts and Phil Mickelson's crisp iron shots, on Internet delay, via satellite still shots, using little white photoshop pixels as golf balls.  Or just sit around and wait for Google's first web broadcast of the Masters.  It might happen someday.

We have no idea where "Amen Corner" is in this shot, but we are sure some enterprising reader can find it.  What we do know is CBS has been known to pipe in bird chirps to their golf telecasts--can you believe it?

Related Stories:
· Augusta National Map [Google]
· Augusta National [Official Site]