10 Doable ideas:
1. No clubs with lofts greater than 50 degrees
2. Take the "roll and hop out" of the current fairway maintenance standards through changes in height, mowing frequency, water timing (water as close to open as possible), and increase aerification frequency; this would add, at minimum, a full club to every approach shot easily and if you do the next maybe two or three clubs to each approach
3. Take as much of the "hold" out of the green complex as possible, 3 reasons:
a. we'd all be forced to play the softest ball we can find to hold the greens- smash ball would be gone
b. maintenance and new construction costs would drop, as we wouldn't need as many bunkers to protect the green complex
c. the rub of the green would be back as we'd be forced to play on the ground to control roll, rather than the artillery golf we're playing today
4. Bring back the grain! Add 1/8 to 3/16 to all green heights so the turf just starts to lean a bit
5. no more yardage books or course markings - obligatory
6. all sand / bunker material must come from within 20 miles of the sight, cleaned and ground materials strictly prohibited, organic natural bunker material only - I bet it won't cost $50 a ton and the ball certainly wouldn't be sitting up on the rounded material like it does the angular boutique / vanity sand we use today
7. seeding pattern based on two-row head pattern only, alternate routes can be facilitated by single row, and mow lines follow the water pattern
8. rough heights maintained at 1 3/4 to 2 1/4 inches, for fescues, given the new green approach let's increase the chance of the flyer
9. standard putters only, bye-bye belly and broomstick!
10. 1 cocktail every 2 holes, if one through nine get done we'd need 'em!
goodluck!
JT