Spyglass hill is one of the hardest courses on the pga tour....so a fairway hit is not much easier than a fairway miss! Lies, damn lies and statistics
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Good point Pete. If a green is hard to hit no matter where you come from then that differential will decrease.
Another alternative to making the rough more penal is to make the fairway more beneficial. The fairway bunkers that are 20m outside the fairway line are also bad for golf architecture.
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I am surprised nobody has bought this up
https://www.golf.org.au/newsdisplay/...-debate/101709
Lucas Herbert hit a range of shots with new/old clubs and new/old balls. The one thing that was most obvious to me, that in the day of wood drivers and balata balls, nobody swung like that, not even the biggest hitters. As Clayton pointed out, Graham Marsh was the perfect example of how to swing with that equipment, and he wasnt a short hitter.
I don't know ! I do think something needs to be done though.
baseball and cricket did ban the aluminium bat quite quickly, thats a fairly good comparative example. Too late for golf though.
Why don’t they grow rough all the way across fairways at the 280 m mark to the 340 m mark . Put some lumps in the greens and make sure the 3 footer has some speed n break in it . I think that would help some courses defend an easy par 4 . Golf courses shouldn’t be built on good farming land they should be built on poor or hilly crappy stuff make them way more interesting
Grumpy, the best courses are built on sand....forget hilly crappy stuff!
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Callaway Paradym 9* with Diamana TB stiff flex shaft
TM Stealth 2+ 3 wood with Crazy Boron 75g Stiff shaft
Ping G430 7 wood with CB65 stiff shaft
Srixon ZX 5 (mk2) irons with Proj X LZ 5.5 shafts 4 to PW
Callaway MD5 Raw wedges 50/10 56/14 60/12
Lajosi Custum Flow Neck putter *Titty Pro V1X ball.
Ellerston ? I know sand is good , peninsular courses are good because they are on sand but a lot of the land isn’t good farming land not like a lot of the sandbelt courses are . Undulating with creeks gullies impenetrable scrub etc would make it easier to design courses and make them more strategic.
What if sand is in the title of the course, like Sandy Gallop?
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Callaway Paradym 9* with Diamana TB stiff flex shaft
TM Stealth 2+ 3 wood with Crazy Boron 75g Stiff shaft
Ping G430 7 wood with CB65 stiff shaft
Srixon ZX 5 (mk2) irons with Proj X LZ 5.5 shafts 4 to PW
Callaway MD5 Raw wedges 50/10 56/14 60/12
Lajosi Custum Flow Neck putter *Titty Pro V1X ball.
If u spent $10M designing/building a course and let 8 people a day play it....it should b fricken good!
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Callaway Paradym 9* with Diamana TB stiff flex shaft
TM Stealth 2+ 3 wood with Crazy Boron 75g Stiff shaft
Ping G430 7 wood with CB65 stiff shaft
Srixon ZX 5 (mk2) irons with Proj X LZ 5.5 shafts 4 to PW
Callaway MD5 Raw wedges 50/10 56/14 60/12
Lajosi Custum Flow Neck putter *Titty Pro V1X ball.
Gamers
Callaway Paradym 9* with Diamana TB stiff flex shaft
TM Stealth 2+ 3 wood with Crazy Boron 75g Stiff shaft
Ping G430 7 wood with CB65 stiff shaft
Srixon ZX 5 (mk2) irons with Proj X LZ 5.5 shafts 4 to PW
Callaway MD5 Raw wedges 50/10 56/14 60/12
Lajosi Custum Flow Neck putter *Titty Pro V1X ball.
It shouldn’t even be rated! It is a rich man’s toy!
Gamers
Callaway Paradym 9* with Diamana TB stiff flex shaft
TM Stealth 2+ 3 wood with Crazy Boron 75g Stiff shaft
Ping G430 7 wood with CB65 stiff shaft
Srixon ZX 5 (mk2) irons with Proj X LZ 5.5 shafts 4 to PW
Callaway MD5 Raw wedges 50/10 56/14 60/12
Lajosi Custum Flow Neck putter *Titty Pro V1X ball.
I don't have any solution to the distance issue but I find PGA tour golf absolutely boring to watch....Would prefer to watch the LPGA no matter where the venue.
PGA tour depends on event, love Sentry tour of champions, players, us open, dell matchplay. Hate the Florida swing and playoffs.
The best three events by a country mile: Masters, Open, Ryder Cup
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1986 Masters. Now this was exciting to watch.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vbsVaBDRtBI
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There is a Clayton podcast https://podcast.iseekgolf.com/19 where he argues that the difference in distance on the women's tour is greater than the men's and they play them on overly short courses to ensure a close result. The end result being the longer hitters play driver and a bag of wedges.
I don’t mind watching a good birdie-feat.
Much better than a tricked up US Open with rock hard greens rolling at 15.
MLB was smart, they never allowed aluminium bats into the game to begin with.
Step one is acknowledgment.
Deeper rough at 300m off the tee than 240m?
Lumps in the green would limit pin locations and slow down the game even more.
Ellerston is a long way from everywhere, and difficult to get do. Can't see how it could be classed as a junket when you pay your own way to get there, unless of course you have a nasty dose of rater envy.
The course itself is good, but underwhelming. The par 5's especially are poor and destroy the myth that Norman and Harrison are great par 5 builders. The rest of the course is quite disjointed in places, unwalkable in others, and too difficult for players over say a 10 handicap. I was expecting it to be better than it was. The conditioning was impressive, but then again, they get to pick and choose when visitors see the course, so that has to be taken into consideration as well when forming an overall view of where the course should be on the lists.
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