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corey miller

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Re: Why is Winged Foot so green?
« Reply #25 on: September 19, 2020, 09:06:16 AM »





Gil's restorations do look great, I suspect in most all instances the clubs do not go far enough in what he asks in seeking to get the "look" correct.


More importantly, and we can throw out WFW as a "championship" outlier, is the extent to which Gil's courses "play"  for regular run of the mill members.  Do they "ask/and listen" when it comes to green speeds, fairway heights and excessive teeing areas which in the end (with multiple additional tees) provide less variability.

Kalen Braley

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Re: Why is Winged Foot so green?
« Reply #26 on: September 19, 2020, 03:38:35 PM »
21 players under par after day 1.  Perhaps not what I expected, but as was mentioned in the other thread, so many guys hitting wedges and 9 irons into greens that 14 years ago were 7 and 6 irons, much less long irons in Hale Irwins time.  Huge difference!


Bubba Watson had 128 yds on his approach to 18 today.


Matt Wolf just hit Driver/9 iron to the green on the par 5 9th. 

Jeff Schley

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Re: Why is Winged Foot so green?
« Reply #27 on: September 20, 2020, 04:49:54 AM »
21 players under par after day 1.  Perhaps not what I expected, but as was mentioned in the other thread, so many guys hitting wedges and 9 irons into greens that 14 years ago were 7 and 6 irons, much less long irons in Hale Irwins time.  Huge difference!


Bubba Watson had 128 yds on his approach to 18 today.


Matt Wolf just hit Driver/9 iron to the green on the par 5 9th.
Don't worry Kalen, the USGA is studying the problem, still. ;D
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