Doc, I always enjoy your perspective on golf subjects. I have putted on greens where you worked when trying to qualify for things…
Here is my
opinion as subjective as any other. Even when the greens are good here they are not even close to what I played in MA. I can count on one hand the number of times when I was in a round here and thought, these greens are really good. One time was at Palmer. They were smooth and as important (to me) fast. I watched with pleasure at my competitors (teen handicappers) having no clue how to putt on greens this quick. I am a bit embarrassed I got pleasure out if that
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I am not talking about private clubs in MA, I am talking about courses like Foxboro where I was a member. It was a blue collar club back in the day. All they cared about was the greens, sometimes they s*cked and that was all the members talked about, but ,most of the time they were awesome and that is all the members talked about. I once brought a friend for a member guest and he asked me the line of a 10 foot putt, he thought it was left edge. I then told him if I were to hit this I would play about 3 feet of break AND I would hit it as if it was a 3 foot putt.
Those were great greens, what we have here are OK when they are in good shape which I will live with. Just my opinion.