Should set up a US Open like a regular tournament, especially next year at pebble, (keep hole#2 a par 5) let every major championship record fall and send a big FU to the tour, media, players, etc for *****ing about the conditions at shinnecock.
Harry Stone said:
Should set up a US Open like a regular tournament, especially next year at pebble, (keep hole#2 a par 5) let every major championship record fall and send a big FU to the tour, media, players, etc for *****ing about the conditions at shinnecock.
Come to Giddings. You could drive, chip AND putt off gravel. The trifecta.AggieIce said:
Should host it at Bryan Muni
Would love to see these pros putt on gravel
WhoopN06 said:
I hreally did not have any issues with the setup on Saturday.
I agree that lengthening the course is really helping the big hitters, but I'm not sure there is any solution.Ag_07 said:
I've opined for a long time that when courses were going through the 'Tiger proofing' fad as players were getting longer that it in reality that was helping them.
What makes longer players happy? More room to hit driver.
I think the best thing to do to combat the length that players have now is to shorten the course and either take driver out of their hands or make it tight enough to entice them to hit driver but punish them if they're too long or inaccurate.
Think that's what the USGA and course architects need to focus a bit more on. Make it tough without adding length.
Forum Troll said:
Koepka has stated in interviews that he'd rather hit the ball 330 into the rough and have a 9 iron or wedge into the green than be in the fairway and be hitting 6 or 7. Course set up can punish this mentality if the USGA chooses to do so.
Agree. Make hitting solid more important than hitting hard.watty said:
It will, and it should be. I think they should make the ball spin more, personally.
watty said:
Why would standardizing loft make a difference?
watty said:
It will, and it should be. I think they should make the ball spin more, personally.
Forum Troll said:
Koepka has stated in interviews that he'd rather hit the ball 330 into the rough and have a 9 iron or wedge into the green than be in the fairway and be hitting 6 or 7. Course set up can punish this mentality if the USGA chooses to do so.
Totally agree about Links courses. There are only two in my opinion that should host it:Shinnecock and Oakmont. and it should be on of those every six or seven years.DannyDuberstein said:
Pebble should be good as long as the USGA can stomach the fact that there's a good chance under par will win it there, as it has for most of the past 30-40 years there. But the setup at Pebble is tried and true.
I really wish they'd stop picking so many links courses where they are counting heavily on wind to defend it. They really seem to be struggling with how to set those up, and they too easily swerve between too easy and too ridiculous. And it boils down to the fact that a links course just doesn't just let you scientifically set it up to defend par. Set it up to be hard with average to easy weather, you risk getting ridiculous if you get weather. Don't set it up hard enough and miss the weather, you get Erin Hills.
Pick some courses with other defenses, like trees, and rely more heavily on using rough as a defense than the greens. We're about to get into a pretty good stretch of courses (Pebble, Winged Foot, Torrey, Brookline, LA Country Club, and Pinehurst). Don't swerve back to stacking links together like the past 5 or so year strectch.