http://www.the-golf-nut.com/is_tiger_sending_a_message_to_augusta_national_golf_club.html Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:47:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 http://www.the-golf-nut.com/is_tiger_sending_a_message_to_augusta_national_golf_club.html/comment-page-1#comment-274 Bud Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:22:36 +0000 http://www.yournicheblog.com/vip08/is-tiger-sending-a-message-to-augusta-national-golf-club#comment-274 If one watched the recent US Open, British Open & PGA dramatics [AND the recent Players events], they'd know that tough layouts and forcing the best to the test makes the majors special - hard to win with very little leeway for errors on the weekend. Hey, anyone can put on a Lost Weekend, North Dakota event where the cut is -4 and the winning score is -29. What tough courses & set-ups do is to force a player to play a good tournament and not be able to come from 6 back on the back nine per driver/short iron/putt luck or expertise. Augusta National now doesn't have to rely on stimp 16 greens; it is no longer funhouse golf so the greens can be set to tour standards. If Pro-Vs, titanium drivers and putters anchored to body parts other than hands are allowed, then longer & narrower courses are needed for the pros. If one watched the recent US Open, British Open & PGA dramatics [AND the recent Players events], they’d know that tough layouts and forcing the best to the test makes the majors special – hard to win with very little leeway for errors on the weekend. Hey, anyone can put on a Lost Weekend,
North Dakota event where the cut is -4 and the winning score is -29. What tough courses & set-ups do is to force a player to play a good tournament and not be able to come from 6 back on the back nine per driver/short iron/putt luck or expertise. Augusta National now doesn’t have to rely on stimp 16 greens; it is no longer funhouse golf so the greens can be set to tour standards. If Pro-Vs, titanium drivers and putters anchored to body parts other than hands are allowed, then longer & narrower courses are needed for the pros.

]]> http://www.the-golf-nut.com/is_tiger_sending_a_message_to_augusta_national_golf_club.html/comment-page-1#comment-273 Bud Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:22:16 +0000 http://www.yournicheblog.com/vip08/is-tiger-sending-a-message-to-augusta-national-golf-club#comment-273 If one watched the recent US Open, British Open & PGA dramatics [AND the recent Players events], they'd know that tough layouts and forcing the best to the test makes the majors special - hard to win with very little leeway for errors on the weekend. Hey, anyone can put on a Lost Weekend, North Dakota event where the cut is -4 and the winning score is -29. What tough courses & set-ups do is to force a player to play a good tournament and not be able to come from 6 back on the back nine per driver/short iron/putt luck or expertise. Augusta National now doesn't have to rely on stimp 16 greens; it is no longer funhouse golf so the greens can be set to tour standards. If Pro-Vs, titanium drivers and putters anchored to body parts other than hands are allowed, then longer & narrower courses are needed for the pros. If one watched the recent US Open, British Open & PGA dramatics [AND the recent Players events], they’d know that tough layouts and forcing the best to the test makes the majors special – hard to win with very little leeway for errors on the weekend. Hey, anyone can put on a Lost Weekend,
North Dakota event where the cut is -4 and the winning score is -29. What tough courses & set-ups do is to force a player to play a good tournament and not be able to come from 6 back on the back nine per driver/short iron/putt luck or expertise. Augusta National now doesn’t have to rely on stimp 16 greens; it is no longer funhouse golf so the greens can be set to tour standards. If Pro-Vs, titanium drivers and putters anchored to body parts other than hands are allowed, then longer & narrower courses are needed for the pros.

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