Sure, all the insider and smart money was put down on the incredible long shot odds of Louis or Adam coming from a million shots behind to overcome DJs length advantage... Reality TV golf made for the improbable sensational theater. Who is making this stuff up JK, you or Fox news conspiratorists with so much talent and experience of raising the goyem's suspicious natures? Maye it is the new trend sweeping the nation of giving the little guy a break and take it out of the 1%er long drivers advantage?
IMHO, Davis used the flexibility that the original intent of the design that was sought before they stuck a shovel in the ground. And, if I recall, that is what all the mavens were calling for from USGA regarding the endless schlog courses they were confined to and mindset to set up in all the past years. It doesn't have a damn thing to do with pre-picking a likley winner by flexing the distances and par profile.