The USGA may finally see the light. I hope course designers follow suit. So many of the really penal courses these days employ what I call exponential penalty golf. If you miss a little, you pay a lot. Not only is that unfair to the better ball strikers, but it makes for miserable times for the higher handicap folks. There is skill and strategy involved in hoisting one out of reasonable rough over a hazard to get to the green. That skill and strategy becomes irrelevant if that same miss puts you OB, in the lake, or in rough over your knees.
However, what I call "reverse discrimination" seems to be a US Open policy. If you can drive the ball on to the fairway, you receive a 75 yard bonus roll. Fred Funk should average 325 yards Driving Distance this week.
However, what I call "reverse discrimination" seems to be a US Open policy. If you can drive the ball on to the fairway, you receive a 75 yard bonus roll. Fred Funk should average 325 yards Driving Distance this week.
The greatest technological advantage giving today's tour players such long distance off the tee is the John Deere 3235C Fairway Mower. Why doesn't the USGA forget about COR and worry about HAG (Height Above Ground)?
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Steph
Distance is Magic; Precision is Practice.
The greatest technological advantage giving today's tour players such long distance off the tee is the John Deere 3235C Fairway Mower. Why doesn't the USGA forget about COR and worry about HAG (Height Above Ground)?
LOL. The Trampoline Effect - the Fairway, not the Clubface. It looks like a Tennis Match.
gives that Tiger played 39 consecutive majors without missing a cut.
So what was Nicklaus longest streak of making cuts in majors.
You guessed it.
39
At the old Wembley Stadium thirty nine steps needed to be climbed to reach the Royal box and collect a winner's trophy.
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When James Durham recorded 94 at the Old Course at St Andrews in 1767, he set a course record that lasted 86 years. Golf: A curious sport whose object is to put a very small ball in a very small hole with implements ill desiged for the purpose - Sir Winston Churchill
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That skill and strategy becomes irrelevant if that same miss puts you OB, in the lake, or in rough over your knees.
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