Patrick:
You can't seriously mean to go back to page one of a 14 page thread.
That has been asked and answered, we've moved on to about 55 different issues besides the basic question on page one.
If you truly want to re-discuss something covered in such ungodly detail yet again, I'd be happy to do so.
Wearily, and praying for some good nature from you, I shall just say I disagree, in that I don't feel the bad putter suffers as much as you say, especially as against the good putters, who also do suffer to some extent.
Just to hopefully put this in real world context and put it to rest, here's how I explained it off-line to a friend earlier today, who seemed to get it immediately and agree:
huckaby72 (11/21/2006 8:28:24 AM): putter A takes 28 putts on a good day at SJ Muni, putter B takes 34
huckaby72 (11/21/2006 8:28:39 AM): put them both at Pasa, and A takes 34, B takes 39
huckaby72 (11/21/2006 8:28:47 AM): 6 is greater than 5
huckaby72 (11/21/2006 8:28:53 AM): thus the harder greens narrowed the gap
Again, I trust you disagree. But that's how I see it playing out, and have seen it play out in my tournament group. Assume we have no great putters, so player A is good, but player B is bad. For reference, SJ Muni has very flat, easy greens. Pasa I trust you at least can imagine due to the voluminous discussion of it in here.
TH