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Originally Posted by rubicon
Yea, pin placement just unfair, wind too, sore elbow .............
I take the course as I find it. No excuses for me, no do overs and no six inch holes. And I do add a stroke to my game if the ball moves
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Yea, that's my feeling as well. The game was never meant to be perfect. People like to compare the conditions that the see on television. I like to have people look at the conditions that existed over the first couple hundred years that the game was played. They played on pastures and the rule was to play the ball as it lies. Today if conditions are less than perfect people want to take preferred lies. Hitting out of bad lies is a skill required to play the game.
When I played I found nothing so satisfying than to hit a great shot out of a bad lie and never say anything about it. I knew what a great job I had done and that was enough for me.
You'll find that good players practice playing out of bad lies.
Bad hole locations? Try putting on your front lawn to get an understanding of how the game was originally played.
We actually only have to look back less than 100 years to see the scores shot by Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen, Same Snead, Hogan and the rest of the players of that era and know that the conditions that we have today are far better then a US Open course in the 1930s or 40s.