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Old 03-28-2016, 08:47 AM
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Default Unreasonable Pin Placements

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Originally Posted by bagboy View Post
For anyone that doubts your experience and descriptions of balls rolling off the green, they should view footage of previous US OPENS held at Pinehurst #2. And yes, those tournaments are USGA sanctioned.
I do not question the speed of US Open greens. That is not the same as a pin placement on a slope where the ball is not able to stop within a couple feet of the hole. Apples and oranges.

Even US Open ultra-lightening-fast greens comply with USGA pin placement requirements.