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Old 07-12-2007, 08:28 PM
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Originally Posted by 12 piece bucket View Post
I don't get it. If the best players in the world are averaging 77 or whatever on a golf course . . . something is afoul. What's the big deal about them making a birdie. The USGA is selfabsorbed. Tweeking these old courses to "protect" them and par is like putting a mustashe on the mona lisa. It's not golf. The guys at the Masters are doing the same thing. Bobby Jones wouldn't recognize his golf course.
I think I agree.

The only thing I can say on the other side of it is that sometimes you feel the nervous tension just watching it........imagine what they must feel.
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