Some are parkland style with plenty of trees and broad, rolling greens while others have tight greens peppered with treacherous pot-hole bunkers.

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Always a tight shot through ever encroaching statuesque Georgia pines, the tee has been pushed back and the par-four hole measures an extra 60 yards compared to the 405-yarder the players faced in the early 1990s.

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