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Jud_T

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Re: TOC - 2nd green "...too easy"
« Reply #25 on: December 05, 2012, 08:14:52 AM »
Bill,

This is why this is potentially such an affront.  The charm of the place was that you could essentially play the entire course with a putter if you so desired.  This puts their claim that they have the best interests of the course at heart in bold relief.
Golf is a game. We play it. Somewhere along the way we took the fun out of it and charged a premium to be punished.- - Ron Sirak

jeffwarne

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Re: TOC - 2nd green "...too easy"
« Reply #26 on: December 05, 2012, 08:16:51 AM »
Bill,

This is why this is potentially such an affront.  The charm of the place was that you could essentially play the entire course with a putter if you so desired.  This puts their claim that they have the best interests of the course at heart in bold relief.

well, um after the first hole....
"Let's slow the damned greens down a bit, not take the character out of them." Tom Doak
"Take their focus off the grass and put it squarely on interesting golf." Don Mahaffey

Jud_T

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Re: TOC - 2nd green "...too easy"
« Reply #27 on: December 05, 2012, 08:33:29 AM »
In the Stymie days clearing the burn with a putter was a requisite skill. ;)
Golf is a game. We play it. Somewhere along the way we took the fun out of it and charged a premium to be punished.- - Ron Sirak

Bill Brightly

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Re: TOC - 2nd green "...too easy"
« Reply #28 on: December 05, 2012, 08:41:08 AM »
Bill,

This is why this is potentially such an affront.  The charm of the place was that you could essentially play the entire course with a putter if you so desired.  This puts their claim that they have the best interests of the course at heart in bold relief.

More to the point, I think this might be an example of making a change to a golf course just to challenge pro golfers when the pin is on the right side: can they hit a very small target landing area over the new bunkers and allow the ball to pitch onto the green, or can they hit a high lofted shot that holds the green?

But what about all the other golfers hitting much loger clubs, say 5 iron or more and need far more room for their ball to roll, who now have lost their landing area?


 

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