Routing always over length, after all is it not ‘the game’ we crave to play. Anyone who requires more than 6,500yard to play a good round has lost his way along with our governing bodies.
We want good challenging courses that make us think, not through the toys we use to generally do that for us. Many can’t play the shorter courses because testosterone is affecting their thinking. The game is to navigate through the traps and hazards but the aerial game is boring at best, expensive to build and maintain and proves zero regard one’s skill level.
Give me good routing first and foremost as it’s the heart of GCA, it is the design as all else are just the additives. Just because you own a fast car (fast horse etc) does not mean that you have to drive at its top speed all the time. The car allows all aspects of driving to be fully experienced not just the high top speed. The fun of an expensive sports car is the ability to corner, which far outweighs the thrill of going fast on a straight road. That just requires adaptive cruise control while holding the steering wheel, wow that takes real skill, the Hell it does. The ability to build up ones experience as you learns how to control the car through all the corners is where the real skill is learnt. Letting one understanding the pure enjoyment of acquiring skill against just steering in a boring straight line.
Were the Golden Age courses on the sort side or were they all over 7000 yards.
Routing over length, it’s a no brainer, unless you are a testosterone dickhead.
Melvyn