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Geoffrey Childs

Re:Are they playing the British Open at TOC
« Reply #25 on: July 15, 2005, 09:33:54 AM »
Brian

The current course setup is taking away options from the players and forcing play along certain lines.  That is the antithesis of St Andrews as a links course and what distinguished it from all other courses. I don't care if it's been like that for the last two years.

Why is it you think the R & A feels it is necessary to do this and to change how the course plays from when Norman and Faldo competed so well in 1990?
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Brian Phillips

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Re:Are they playing the British Open at TOC
« Reply #26 on: July 15, 2005, 09:35:40 AM »
Geoffrey,

On which holes do you mean?  You have only mentioned the 16th.  Which other holes do you mean?

Brian
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Geoffrey Childs

Re:Are they playing the British Open at TOC
« Reply #27 on: July 15, 2005, 10:08:13 AM »
Brian

The 16th is for certain.  In viewing the overhead shots and in looking at the play it seems to me that much of the left side of the course has been taken away compared to where it used to be.  Fewer players are choosing to take the safer but subsequently more difficult left route not by choise but by setup taking away that option.  Certainly #17 fairway has shrunk quite a bit.  Yet they hit very few drivers off that tee and have much shorter approaches than I recall in the past.

Could it be the equipment and the ball?
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