The Old Course or ANGC and wind

[Pete_Pittock]

If you were playing either course in competition on a windy day, would you prefer?
For scoring I would pick TOC as the wind effect would be calculable, whereas a parkland course would be a guessathon.
For physical comfort, the oppose choice if you like being in the lee.

[cary lichtenstein]

Old Course

[Paul Rudovsky]

TOC or any links course much easier to play in the wind...not even close.  Trees block the winds coming from certain directions in  certain locations.  That causes a "partial vacuum" to form and since "nature abhors a vacuum" other air rushed into the space from another direction.  That is why the flags on holes 11 & 12 at ANGC show winds from totally different directions simultaneously

[Tom_Doak]

Links courses are designed so you can land the ball short of the green and bounce it on when a hole is playing downwind.


Augusta has very few holes where that will work at all.  Obviously some of them are fronted by water or bunkers, but even at some where it's short grass in front, like 3 and 14, short is the worst place to be.

[jeffwarne]

At a links course you can mitigate the wind by controlling trajectory.
Often at Augusta, especially when firm(which it was), you have to maintain height to stop the ball,as runups simply aren't a viable predictable, option on most holes