Golf Digest: Best New Courses 2013: Ground Game

[Ross Harmon]

http://www.golfdigest.com/golf-courses/2013-12/best-new-courses

Sorry if this has already been posted... but it's official: Fast and Firm is now cool again!  

No big surprise... Streamsong and Dismal Doak lead the way for best new courses of the year.

[JR Potts]

Really, lead the way?   

"Yet Doak's biggest accomplishment in 2013 was likely Medinah No. 1. It was a full remodeling job, not a restoration. The alteration of No. 1 was dictated by a flood-control project, so Doak had to deal with environmental and governmental interests that would seemingly cramp his style. It was also a rush job; construction began the day after the 2012 Ryder Cup and was completed in August 2013. By removing trees and changing directions of fairways, the transformation is total. Greens are the antithesis of those at Streamsong, small, canted (several front to back) and subtly contoured. What remains to be seen is if the bentgrass fairways will be kept thirsty and bouncy."

[David Davis]

Another really, I guess I haven't played enough golf in America lately but from what I have played I sure didn't see this fundamental shift in American golf towards the ground game.

Course all things being relative perhaps my understanding of the ground game as it relates to links golf is not the same "ground game" this writer is mentioning here.

A couple great courses by a few guys out of what, 40,000+ a fundamental shift towards ground game doesn't make.

Please feed my skepticism and prove the author right.

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