31.   So again, the advantage is to the long hitter.

32.   Soon it was two hitters too long.

33.   Sure, a long hitter has an advantage, but only if he is hitting the ball very straight as well.

34.   Sunny skies eventually returned, but they were swirled by winds that made playing conditions more difficult for a course that usually rewards long hitters.

35.   That sounds good to the long hitters, who will be looking to pound their way to victory.

36.   The Augusta National course, which favors long hitters, hardly has been comforting to Brooks.

37.   The long hitters have even more of an advantage this week, as the fairways are soft from recent rains.

38.   The Masters is played over a course with no rough, and it favors the long hitter and those who play with a slight fade.

39.   There are people who foresee wholesale changes in the course in the future, the better to stave off the destruction long hitters such as Woods can wreak.

40.   With the distance gains of recent years, getting to the plateau beyond the fairway bunker, except into the wind, had become routine for the long hitters.