All I see is yet again the full willingness of certain people to take further steps away from the reality of a game called golf.
These same people see no compromise when using carts, distance aids or the latest technology in the headlong pursuit to destroy the heart and soul of the game of golf
Why not utilise GPS, after all you have already contaminated the game of golf with other aids just to make your life easy. I wonder if you feel the same about the commitment to your flag and country.
Quite frankly if you do not get it, or want to protect it then get the hell away from the game and leave golf to the traditionalist.
Not one word has been spoken about a duty of care or for that matter responsibility of maintaining if not the great,
then certainly older Greens that have stood the test of time. Just because modern golfer no longer seem able to
hack the courses or Greens that their fathers and grandfathers mastered, change is demanded using the excuse
that they are boring.
Architects and designers jump in to modify these areas without, what appears, concern for the quality or history of
the course and the underlying greatness of the Greens in question. Why has not one of you asked why or put up
a reasonable defence for maintaining the Green. Or has the constraints upon the golfing world meant that to earn a
little money we are willing to destroy what was once considered great, only laid low by the lack of controlling
ball/club technology.
Well the future will no doubt remember you destroyed a Colt or Ross Green for the sake of a hand full of coins.
There for the grace of God goes a man that used the excuse of feeding his family before destroying a work of such
skill and knowledge that was The Green at …..
Use your modern tools but that does not mean that your design is better, it just means you have taken the easy option. But don’t fret, you are doing what many, many others are doing, however the question is should you know better, do you know better, in fact are you doing it for golf or purely to make a living, no matter the cost to the game and the old great courses. Are you just plugging the gap until some consistency in controlling technology is achieved diminishing in your wake the great holes, in fact have you asked yourselves will your modification stand the test of time or will it too be modified within half a dozen years.
So use your toys, make life easy but unless you tackle the underlying problems within the game you will have achieved very little with or without you GPS.
Sorry just a passionate plea for some form of consistency in dealing with many old courses originally designed by past Masters otherwise we may just read about their greatness as most of their work will have been destroyed.
Oh by the way GPS should never be used in designing Greens, unless the said Greens will be affected by the tides!!