[John Moore II]

The pin on #6 has to count as easy -- Shaun Micheel made double-eagle and there were four eagles on Sunday.   

6 was by far the easiest hole all week and yeah, that pin was accessible on Sunday, but that one hole doesn't make up for the whole course. That hole was reachable for just about everyone, so pretty much any pin position is accessible.

Pebble is known for its small greens so when they are really firm they become zero greens.

I agree Jerry.  Perhaps fast & firm doesn't work so well on a course with 'small' greens.  Combined with the hole locations, it seemed to make the course look tricked-up and goofy.

I agree with the first statement, but Michael, I have to disagree with you slightly. Those greens were beyond firm and beyond fast. They were as hard as pool tables and just as fast. That is what got them silly.

[Andrew Brown]

Pebble was playing F&F with those approaches in front of greens - therefore an opportunity for the fabled "run up" approach?

Short of the pin on 6 allowing this, I can't recall any "short / exposed" pin on Sunday that wasn't tucked behind a bunker (edit - perhaps 8, and also 13 comes to mind - that's when Ernie let go his "I can't believe that f%ckin ball didn't bounce")

However, lack of wind Sunday, tucked pins and the state of golf....proof that the F&F "run up" approach in the modern professional game is just that - a fable?

Wouldn't 7 at 92 yards been difficult with the pin cut in the middle back, 3 or 4 paces from the back of the green, seeing if someone could pitch a low 3-quarter 8 or 9 iron that lands on the front and runs up, rather than risk the spinning lob wedge pitched at the hole and spinning back down the green somewhat - or am I the only person who pitches low with an 8 iron from 90 yards these days?

Regards
Andrew

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