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Originally Posted by jim1941
If the idea is to speed up the game, then remove the sand traps on those two courses………or better yet, all level one courses. It's not the size of the hole that slows the game down, it's the hazards and golfers playing from the wrong tee boxes.
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I think that you make a very valid point. What my experience has shown me, and this is backed up by NGF data, is that better players get to the greens fairly quickly and are slow on and around the greens. The exact opposite is true for higher handicap players. They take a long time to get to the green and the chip and putt very quickly.
If objective of enlarging the hole is to speed play, then it should be done on the more difficult holes and for only single digit handicappers.
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