Interesting day today, which was a first in this way shape and form. First day of the KLM Open at Hilversumsche Golf Club. Spent much of day inside the ropes walking with a group consisting of Kaymer, Colsaerts and Olazabal. Fun to watch all the shots from 15 ft behind or to the side of the guys and see what they experience, felt almost like I was playing. I guess you must get use to it after a while, so much disturbance, phones, feet walking, people talking, cheers going on, certainly raised my level of respect for what the guys are doing. However, now to the point. I noticed that all the rough around the greens had been trimmed from like 5 inches to somewhat of tight lies perhaps 1.5 to 2 inches. When I ran into the guy responsible for the course maintenance I asked him and he said they had to shave everything short from the European Tour as they thought it was too difficult. What's interesting is the club is known not to have a lot of single handicappers, which means these guys are struggling in this stuff all the time and immediately I thought about all the fun and playable discussions going on here and I told the guy they did a great job with the course and should pay attention to the comments from the European Tour people and learn from them to keep the course more playable for it's members. My question to everyone who's had experience with having big events come to your club or perhaps been involved in the maintenance, be it PGA or European Tour or some other tour around the world, have you noticed them insisting on making changes that make the course more playable or easier? What do you think of this? How has your club reacted in the aftermath of the events based on these changes?