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Originally Posted by pgardn
Kev or anybody else.
What does par mean on a course like this?
I hear all these players describing the greens like it is some bizarre putt-putt course where you can end up further away from the hole than you started on every putt. Surely the USGA or whatever can get more creative than making sure there is no flat part on a concrete green and then putting the hole at the top of one of the numerous mounts on the green. Thats to easy to make "hard".
Dont you try and make a course with the intent of making it challenging and playable. When no one has a real possibility of breaking par on a course (assuming it does not rain) what the heck does par mean? I dont like watching people constantly trying to lag putts and hardly ever trying to actually make a long to medium range putt. Do people really like to watch a winner come in at 10 over...? What is so special about that?
I dont want to see a course where everyone and their mother can birdie all the holes, but I dont like seeing a course that plays to luck either. The greens seem absurd based on what I have read.
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Pat....in all honesty...par means nothing. It is just a gauge. The idea is to take the fewest amount of strokes possible. If it takes 280 or 295 to win...the idea is to outlast, outperform and out grind every other player in the field.
...and I just heard Berman say Anders "look ma no" Hanson...my God...SHUT THE F*CK UP ALREADY.
I hope someone gets back to 140 so that Mickelson will miss the cut.
I love the demeanor of these guys atop the leaderboard...and their demeanor is exactly why they are up there.