Did anyone else see the tip from Leadbetter during the Northern Trust coverage today? The tip was not important, but I found his comments about "old style golf courses" sort of interesting. Here is the exact quote
"Certainly at Riviera, an old style golf course, there are a lot of tight fairways. The older style golf courses have a lot more trees, obviously. The modern golf course is a little more wide open."
I don't know what he means when he says "older style" or "modern," but my general stereotype is the opposite. I guess some older courses have a lot more trees now and have become narrow, because trees have had more time to get big and many have not been controlled properly. So, his statement may actually be correct, but the "style" of older courses certainly was not based on tight fairways, and I think the style of many modern courses is based on exactly that.
I have found TGC's covereage of Riviera to be pretty good. They have talked a lot about the strategies of the various holes and did a nice blurb on George Thomas (even mentioning Crump and Wilson in the process).