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Old 04-02-2016, 09:59 AM
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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.
Number 7 at Shinnecock is another great example as is 18 at Olympic. I don't think that most people realize how good the tour players are to shoot the scores that they do on the courses they play.

Watch next week at Augusta National. I'm sure that you'll see a few examples of a player getting int he wrong place and have no control over his ball.

Another factor in this discussion has to be the speed of the greens. I've seen courses where the greens had such severe slopes to that the speed of the greens had to be slowed. I haven't played here in The Villages, but I doubt that any of the courses have green speeds of 12 or 13.
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