Bathurst needs to pave all the grass and run off areas. It doesn’t make sense to have the cars stick to the track for the best results.
Bathurst needs to pave all the grass and run off areas. It doesn’t make sense to have the cars stick to the track for the best results.
Did anyone hit driver on 1 on Sunday? There’s fairway from tee to green.
Is that a lack of options?
Never said it was bad, never said it had no options.
When the options are, hit a mid length shot to avoid devillish rough, or die - we are not talking a course that rewards strategy, we are talking a course that rewards execution. That's where you might be confusing my point.
Which comes back to the opinion of hippo and I that it is not a strategic course.
Of course hitting driver is an option. But on a hole like 1 (for pros), it's not a viable strategy as the reward is so minor and the risk so great.
For me, driver is an option, as it's probably the only club in my bag that will give me a second shot to the green. Due to the fact I am ****ed if I don't hit fairway, the hole becomes a test of my execution.
How can you separate execution and strategy? Even if you have a course that you might seem as strategic, you won't score well if your strategy is good but your execution is off. Execution has nothing to do with the course. It's what you do once you choose the right strategy.
Obviously golf is predominantly a test of execution.
But I look at it this way - if a course gives you one viable option (LGN #1) - you are testing execution. If the course offers you multiple viable options, with varying degrees of difficulty (and remunerate reward), you are testing strategy AND execution.
Now, if we talk about typical PGA bomb and gauge golf, it's a test of recovery and putting!
Even if i didn't play from the tips, what strategic options is it offering me?
The FW narrows down to "pointless me trying", so I am still hitting what ever club gets me closest to the water in the safe part of the FW. So again, the hole is still only a test of my execution.
Maybe make the fw closer to the hole a bit wider, and all of a sudden the thought it can be a viable option is running through my head. Tada! Strategy (and still execution).
Every point you make about “strategy” comes back to unpunished spraying of driver being the be all and end all of golf course design.
The competition needs the same re-balance as forty years ago.
USA can be boosted by non-European internationals to level up the playing field.
You don't get me. I'm part of the Union.
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