Let me see if I have this straight...
I have to admit that I didn't watch play today and just heard the circumstances of the cancellation through reading this thread.
So, in a spring tournament, in flat, flat, flat Houston, the greens were cut so short that golfers could no longer play because there was not enough friction present to hold a hard round object in place once acceleration and momentum would have normally been expired.
So, in a game that was born and grew up along the windy coast, we have now taken it so far afield in our quest for what is trumpeted as ideal agronomics that a 25mph wind, with gusts to 40mph, make the game unplayable!?!?!?
They cut the grass so short that they couldn't play?!??!?
This is a new low, literally.
Some wonder why purists get upset when classic courses with interesting green contours get flattened and neutered because they won't support "modern green speeds".
Others wonder why we get upset when we watch greens die, or watch them so susceptible to disease, because they are overwatered, overcut, and overstressed, and call us dinosaurs when we say a green at Huntingdon Valley left to grow a little longer and develop a little grain is ideal, as opposed to the Muirfield Village, ANGC model.
Some wonder why some of us are so critical of magazine rankings where courses like ANGC are held up as the ideal, whether or not its eventually good for the game, good for our courses, or a sustainable economic and agronomic and even political model for the game going forward.
"It's what the public wants", goes the cry.
Bull, I say. Those who know better and care about the future of the game have a higher responsibility than to continue to sell opiates to the masses because they've been force-fed a diet of modern "need for speed" sensibilities from various self-interested parties over the past 20 years.
..end of rant.