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Originally Posted by kstater
I don’t think it’s set up unfairly. Guys are being too aggressive, if they’d swallow their pride,...
Koepka just ran a birdie putt 15’ past
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There are a number of ways to make a course difficult. I prefer the old US Open style setup of high rough around the greens and deep rough just off the fairway with a short intermediate cut.
The Mike Davis style setups make the fairways much, much wider and bakes them out, which means that good drives end up going 30-50 yards longer than normal and the bank of every green complex is shaved to allow for huge runouts. Basically, he sets up every course like it has Pinehurst's greens.
If you soften the fairways and pinch them, you place a premium on driving and it means that you don't need a 520-yard par four or a tile-like green surface.
You can still have the greens run at 10-11, and with their undulation, they would be difficult, but not asinine. Use thicker rough around the greens to require chop outs and you don't have to kill the greens to make them difficult.