Matt,
I'm hoping to get up and see some of the tournament this weekend.
After seeing the course last year, I am not surprised by the scores. The Kampen Course is one of the toughest I've ever seen. The rough is extremely thick and deep. They maintain the course so that there is almost no roll in the fairways. Plus the Dye greens are his typical work. Also, if the conditions were similar on the course to what we had in Indy it was a little cool with a solid breeze from the East-NE. That would mean every hole but three or four would have cross winds. That would make it difficult off of the tee to keep in in the fairway, especially if they narrowed them like they discussed when I was there. The other thing is that many of those greens are longish and narrower than what you normally see, making approaches in a cross-breeze difficult and you don't want to be in the bunkers at Purdue either. You could be in junk up to your knees or if you're lucky on some awful sand. Add to that, the toughest hole would have been into the wind yesterday (the 8th).
I'm not a big fan of the course, but Purdue could be so much better than it is today. I hope after the tournament, some calmer heads prevail and actually make the course playable for the public like it was supposed to be instead of some tournament torture chamber. Then it might be worthy of some of the praise that it gets. There really are some solid to really nice hole designs there when looked at individually, but the maintainance and conditioning practices bury all of that under a foot of grass.