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Sat 04 Apr 2007Augusta bites backGOLF:So, this is what it was all about. And, it seems, the green jackets knew what they were truly about.All the tweaking and face-lifting that Augusta National underwent in the decade since Tiger Woods strode the fairways like a new golfing king and tore up the record books in 1997 has, finally if belatedly, come to pass, as the 71st Masters has developed into a good, old-fashioned pugilist fight for supremacy.