What amazes me is people think there weren't lightning fast putts 30 or even 50 years ago that merely required a touch-when downhill..
Players of yee olde period who putted on the MacKenzie designed greens on the course I play most often described to me how during times of dryness and firmness in the pre-hosepipe/bowser/irrigation years they deliberately cut across or hooked putts in an attempt to hold the ball against side slopes.
Atb
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I think Jack does a good job in the booth-usually quite insightful. Obviously as knowledgeable as they come.
First of all I enjoy firm fast greens.(despite some rain nearly every day for the past month our greens and fairways are currently as firm and fast as almosts any I've played)
More to the point I enjoy fast putts(due to slope), even putts that can't be gotten close when out of positon.
My beef is not that the greens are 14 at Muirfield for a big event.
It's that the greatest player of all time, and host of a very highly regarded PGA Tour event said "they were easy at 14"
Then continued on to say they'd run them them at 15-16 but with a new Super they didn't want to run the risk of them getting out of control if the weather changed.
I just hate him throwing out numbers rather than just saying they're fast.
Why not just eliminate all slope and be done with it? and play with your johnson out (to be measured and admired)all the time.
If 14 is "easy" and 15-16 are possible, why not 18....20?
...like 5 minute abs