I'll wait to "hear" more than a couple of irrelevant photos and some guy posting on a blog pretending he's Tiger to make my independent assessment of "horribly overgrown," but based on my experience at Carnoustie 2007, where the R&A was demanding and getting rough control from springtime through showtime (in order to not repeat Carnoustie 1999), I'd be really surprised if the old boys from Pilmour Place have allowed Lytham to go wild over the past 6 months. As others have said, it's been a wet year, but not consistently so. England was in major drought lock-down less than 3 months ago, and the Western Isles of Scotland have been arid. Maybe because of the early year drought, Lytham (and/or the R&A) got caught on the hop with the recent diluvian months. I suspect that they will make the course eminently playable by Thursday (even if it means that there are fewer exaltations of skylarks....), and that somebody (Tiger with his Stinger, or Donald with his normal game, or some HamiltonianCurtesian from the masses) will find their way to golf their balls onto the fairways and onto the greens and into the holes fewer times than all the others.