No. 17, Nandina
1998 yardage: 400
2010 yardage: 440

A. A NEW APPROACH

"You were meant to hit about an 8- or 9-iron onto the green on 17. Why? Because both the front of the green and the back left of the green fall off, so you're actually only hitting to a 20-foot deep tabletop. Today, you might have a middle iron or hybrid [approach], and it's impossible to stop the ball on that tabletop with a longer club. To make matters worse, the green is far more severe than MacKenzie ever intended."

THE FINAL WORD

"MacKenzie understood that golf should be fun," Chamblee says. "It should entice you, make you consider something heroic. Maybe you fail, but you had the option of taking that risk. Today, I see players coming off the course and there's no joy. They're bruised, beaten. Why? Because the course is too difficult, and too philosophically different from what MacKenzie intended."