Former PGA Tour player and current looper for Sungjae Im, Willy Wilcox, will carry his man’s bag up and down Augusta National’s pristine fairways this week. During a typical week on the PGA Tour, a caddie will have a detailed yardage book, complete with elevation changes and many of the green slopes before practice begins. There are no shortcuts to learning the proper lines, elevation changes, and slopes around Augusta, however. Players and caddies have to put in the work to complete their yardage books, and rely on tournament veterans willing to share wisdom. On this week’s Any Given Monday, Wilcox spoke about the challenges of learning and mapping Augusta National.
“There’s no slopes in there (the yardage book). The left side of the fairway at 130 yards on nine is, like, almost level, but if you go down 30 yards shorter and to the right, it’s up six (yards). So you have to go to each head and shoot it and figure out the adjusted slope. They intentionally make the books not very detailed so you have to do all the work.”
