"Tom
If you had made it down to the penultimate sentence of the post of mine you referenced you would have seen that I said the same thing you just said in your last post and you could have saved yourself 500 words and a lot of typing!"
Rich:
I did read that post of yours I referenced--all of it, including the penultimate sentence;
"And yet, for all I know, when fast and firm, NGLA may in fact be much tougher than it is long and slow."
When you say things like 'for all I know' do you expect me to put any stock in that--even if followed by 'when fast and firm, NGLA may in fact be much tougher than it is long and slow'?
And when you say; 'that's the way it is over here in Scotland, anyway', that's not exactly similar to NGLA playing the way Matt Burrows may be referring to.
What's going on in Scotland and England right now on the courses I saw and played may not be the kind of scoring tough like NGLA when in the mode that Matt Burrows is likely referring to regarding NGLA. If what he's talking about is what I think he's talking about, scoring on NGLA is probably a ton harder than what's going on at the courses I saw in Scotland and England a few weeks ago. The reason for that is pretty simple though, in my opinion--it just revolves around green speed since the speed "through the green" there is probably quite similar to the speed "through the green" in Scotland and England right now!
Get some of those greens in Scotland and England playing at the same pace and the courses over there would probably be the same as NGLA in scoring toughness. But that's not the way I found them and we all know what that means for approaching, pitching, chipping, recovering and certainly putting! And all that means to scoring toughness ro not. Frankly I thought the conditions over there made for some of the easiest scoring conditions I've seen but I do hit it straight and not long so firm and fast "through the green" helps me a lot but up the putting surface speed over there a couple or three feet and things will change dramatically.
Not that that's what you necessarily want over there but this discussion is about toughness of scoring and what that means at NGLA--at least that's what I thought we were discussing in the last few posts.