Impressive piloting.
The video and the telecast made me dizzy.
Does an event need 7 heights of grass cut to determine a worthy champion?
I'll be honest, I'm not an automatic hater of overseeding as I've seen places it's really done well and sparingly(Palmetto) play super firm and fast and present the course quite well in a very busy time(late winter/spring) when bermuda's not growing and recovering, but volume of play is relentless.
I've seen many places where they did not overseed and the heavy winter season traffic made conditions pretty bare,rough, divoted and dicey come February and March.(Long Cove had this issue the years they did not overseed)
I used to love the clean overseed presentation of Augusta with one height of cut besides the greens, now the rumpled rye rough looks sloppy to me and detracts from the strategy, penalties and recovery shots.
I've also seen dormant grass presented beautifully and rewarded in the rankings (Ohoopee) and much of my winter golf is played on nonoverseeded turf, which I enjoy, and the benefits of not overseeding are definitely better fall playing conditions and no transition.
So I have no preconceived notions about overseeding and understand the want and even occasionally the "need" for it, especially for a place with heavy late winter/spring play.
But I think I draw the line at the sheer overseed volume of grass at TPC, especially in the rough, where a variable semi-dormant bermuda rough, or even the textured centipede that preceeded it, would present a wider variety of judgement and challenges.
The striping, rough, various cuts look ridiculously busy, and is simply a continuation of what they see every week, where most wedge shots have a predictable cushion and present minimal variability and need for creative use of the bounce and sole of the club by a highly skilled player.
Perhaps it looks better in person, as I was there 3 years ago and it did not seem to be as jarring.