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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch
Of course, that's exactly how greens are in Scotland where the game was invented. We were promised a British Open style of course and we got one. Frankly it was much better than seeing shaved down greens where decent putts rolled 50 feet down a slope causing guys to pitch up 3x and take a double. -5 was a score that indicated it was hard but not stupidly punitive.
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That's complete bullshit. Literally wrong on all accounts
1) The greens in Scotland are fescue, but they are a different species with much wider blade width than the fine fescue present at Chambers Bay. Also, they keep the grass longer there, which slows down the greens speeds. Poa cannot be cut short because it grows much quicker and forms seed heads almost instantaneously. As a result, the balls hop everywhere. Fescue greens in Scotland roll true.
2) Ask Chris Kirk above false fronts and pitching up and down multiple times. He had a chip roll down to his feet five times at #1 yesterday. Five. He took a ten.
3) There were numerous cases of guys hitting perfectly good putts that ended up miles away from the hole due to the construction of the green complexes, such as Patrick Reed's putt at 18 on Friday.
4) Open courses do not have greens that undulate nearly that much. The moguls are present in the fairways, and the course is protected by pot bunkers, which adds difficultly to running shots up to the green, and adds difficulty in flying shots to the hole due to the firmness of the putting surface.
It was a bastardized hybrid of a links course and a parkland course.
You simply have no idea what you are talking about.