What’s the easiest hole at Augusta National in the Masters? It comes early, so players better be ready to take advantage of it and set their rounds on the right path. No. 2, named Pink Dogwood, has produced the lowest scoring average in relation to par in the Masters since 1942. The average score on the 585-yard par 5 has been 4.773, making it just one of four holes to average under par.
No. 2 plays steeply downhill, with a fairway bunker guarding the right side of the fairway – the hole has been lengthened in recent decades and the bunker moved to maintain its relevance. After navigating over or past the bunker and the trees left, players can lay up short of the wide and shallow green in a flatter area, choosing to play a wedge from the left side of the fairway to a right pin or from the right side of the fairway to a left flag.
Players trying to reach the green in two from a downhill lie in the fairway can bounce a ball onto the putting surface between two deep bunkers, and it's possible to catch a slope and feed the ball to the right toward the traditional Sunday hole location to set up a reasonable eagle putt. The strongest players can hoist an iron high enough from a downhill lie to carry all the way to the green and stop on the putting surface.
Listed below are the details, including how No. 2 stacked up in the 2024 Masters.
Augusta National Hole No. 2: Pink Dogwood
Par/yardage: 5, 585 yards
Average score (1942-2024): 4.773
Cumulative rank in difficulty: 18
2024 average: 4.658 (17)
Easiest it has played: 4.467 (2020)
Hardest it has played: 4.996 (1957)
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Which hole averages the lowest score at Augusta National in Masters?
