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The Verified Answer for Measures taken to make golf courses tougher in the early 2000s is:
- TIGERPROOFING
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Hint 1: Clue Explanation
▼I guess a golf buff might have an inkling here, or at the very least an idea of what the constructors are talking about — apparently, the narrowing and lengthening of particular golf holes to make them more challenging for particular “long hitters,” otherwise known as TIGER PROOFING. The Tiger here is Mr. Woods, and one of the more famous courses to have undergone this remodeling was Augusta National, where the same Mr. Woods just won his 15th major tournament; maybe TIGER PROOFING is like Scotchgard and needs to be redone every few years. With the NEMEAN lion and NALA nearby, we just needed a bear in this puzzle.