re: Thoughts on the Players becoming a Major Championship?

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Because it's firm and fast and brings strategy into play and narrows fairways and greens. Overseeing makes it soft which takes all strategy out of the game. It takes out the ground game and turns it into a dart competition.

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Also you know Augusta overseeds? That place is pretty fast and strategic.

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dormant anywhere is generally better.

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This isn't a very popular opinion but to each his own.

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people would rather look at a green tree lined piece of shite designed by Jack Nicklaus than a true test of golf designed by a golden age architect

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Oh my...

baw, save us the sanctimony and explanations about the genius in Raynor or Tillinghaus or Ross or whoever the frick you want to champion. You've gone full retard in this thread. You're acting like course condition in October proves that dormant bermuda is tGOAT, but haven't acknowledged how the condition continues to deteriorate until the grass starts growing again. The Players is in March now, not October.

I have absolutely zero idea why you brought up course design in the first place. I just find some irony in your applauding of Squire Creek and then make a comment like that.

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I just find some irony in your applauding of Squire Creek and then make a comment like that.

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Fazio sucks too, hell he may be the very worst offender of boring 90s design. I was making a direct remark to the conditioning of those dormant greens, not their design, but you chose to ignore that quite obvious part.

Shitty courses are still more interesting when they play firm and fast, but casual golf fans judge how "nice" a course is on how green it looks on TV which sucks for people that understand what's going on.

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I was making a direct remark to the conditioning of those dormant greens, not their design

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Are you on drugs? You brought design into this, not me.

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Yeah I know because people would rather look at a green tree lined piece of shite designed by Jack Nicklaus than a true test of golf designed by a golden age architect

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PGA does have the top 100 players in the world generally, but I get your point with all the PGA pros that play.

This is a great tournament and I love watching it. I just don’t understand the desire to make it a major.

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Is backing off your stupid points

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What have I backed off?

Is bringing up pointless shite that has nothing to do with the original discussion your MO?

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Bermuda in the summer is good, because it's not over seeded

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Great.

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but dormant bermuda is the firmest and fastest a course is going to play all year.

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False. Do you not live in louisiana during the fall and winter or something? Where it rains so much that you can't get equipment on the greens? And the greens hardly dry out enough to get as firm as the 6th day in a row above 97* without rain?

And this is just one example. You can go around the country and watch supers keep their greens fast and firm as hell during the summer. You know why? Because the grass is growing and it won't kill it. Come winter, they don't cut and roll when they can but it's not a priority. So the greens are "good" for a few weeks right after going dormant and then they get worse and worse. How is this so difficult for you to understand? It's fricking March, not October.