"What's the problem with the best amateurs in the world needing a three wood to get home on a par 3? It is a gigantic green."
Sully:
Here's a really good question about the setup on Merion's 3rd on Saturday. As you know Mike Davis chose to play that hole on Saturday from the tip tee on #6 which made #3 play at something like 275!! The question is would he have chosen to do that had it not poured rain on Friday thereby essentially wiping out a really firm green condition? Personally, I doubt he would have but like Marucci I do know Mike Davis pretty well and was talking to him at the Walker Cup and that is something I sure can ask him at some point.
I think his answer would tell us a whole lot about the differences between a trully IMM and what can happen to it with rain!
A bit of Davis trivia info on that 3rd Saturday setup. He said he did not like the pin position he chose for that 275 yard tee shot!! He said that pin was one that should have been used for basically no more than a mid-iron. I would guess the pin he probably felt he should've used for that 275 tee shot was one way back right so the players coming in with a wood could have a better opportunity to filter it off the over-all left to right green contours back there. That pin and shot to it would've been a bit more "redanish."
Wayne, I apologize to you for even using that word on here for #3,