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Fore please: Azaleas, dogwoods and foliage, the 2020 Masters thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by MileHigh, Nov 8, 2020.

  1. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Perked up .... at Perkins.
     
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  2. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    DeChambeau played with Tiger, Freddie and JT today.
    He hit 3 drives on 13.
    One clattered in the trees.
    One had him 143 to the front.
    One had him 130 to the front.
     
  3. Sam Mills 51

    Sam Mills 51 Well-Known Member

    Well, at least no one will spit in the cup now ...
     
  4. Sam Mills 51

    Sam Mills 51 Well-Known Member

    If he can hit a high draw, he can avoid playing pinball in the trees.
     
  5. qtlaw

    qtlaw Well-Known Member

    He can definitely hit a high draw, the question is whether he can do it under pressure....
     
  6. Sam Mills 51

    Sam Mills 51 Well-Known Member

    So ... a Bryson-proofing is on the agenda with the green-jacketed sorts?
     
  7. Sam Mills 51

    Sam Mills 51 Well-Known Member

    ... and if he can control it. If he's hitting a 47- or 48-inch driver at that swing speed, control just became an illusion.
     
  8. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    There's only so much they can do.
    This is Augusta 97 to Bryson.
    7 iron or less into the par 5s.
    No more than sand wedges into the par 4s.
     
  9. Sam Mills 51

    Sam Mills 51 Well-Known Member

    If he does that and wins in a runaway Eldrick '97 style, then someone might need to address the ball and clubs.

    At some point, golf courses run out of real estate and have no more space to tuck a tee box 20 yards farther back.

    Evolution is good and all, but this could render quality courses obsolete. Unless you want to pull a USGA and trick up greens and grow waist-high rough ... and, last I checked, Augusta's not going in that direction anytime soon.
     
  10. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    We've been talking ball and clubs for more than two decades. If this turns into the Bob Hope Classic, it will be time to make every hole a par-2. (Noted: I think par is a stupid barometer and have said this for years. It's whoever takes the fewest strokes over four days, whether it's par-72 or par-18.)
     
  11. Sam Mills 51

    Sam Mills 51 Well-Known Member

    Agreed. Par is whatever it is. They're competing against one another for the lowest score, therefore making par irrelevant other than being a gauge used the USGA in preparation of courses and how they have - used to, perhaps - protect their precious par.

    I know the balls and clubs argument has been tossed around to excess. But what else is there? Golf courses are running out of room. How many greens can handle mowing to closer tolerances without looking baked out or outright killing the grass? And while rough should be punitive, I think the heather and gorse at the Open and the hay the USGA usually offers is enough.

    So what else should be done? Because "nothing" relegates more and more courses to pitch-and-putts.
     
    Last edited: Nov 9, 2020
  12. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    The only real option is to super-tighten the fairways. And grow the rough/second cut to the knees.
     
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