Incredible Article

[Jim Nugent]

I don't think the article was tongue in cheek.  But look what the writer did:

He outraged the GCA types, stirring them to action with emails, posts, complaints.  

He probably got knowing, chuckling nods of approval from the non-GCA folks, who on my guess make up 95% or more of the golfing public.  

He got noticed, talked about, and remembered.  No milquetoast there.    

Successful article, from his and his publisher's point of view.  That guy might go far.  

[Andrew Summerell]

The average golfer around the world expects tournament courses to be green & lush. A few of my friends, lesss interested in GCA, commented on how 'brown' the course looked, not believing that a major course should look like that.

It was the same at Royal Lytham & St Anne's the year Tom Lehmann won. Many commented on what they thought was poor maintanence, not realising that 'good' maintanence does not always mean a 'green' course.

If the author of this article understood links courses, he would notice that the courses on the Open roto are all quite different to each other.