Worth Reading The Long Good-Bye?
You can add another name to the rundown of individuals griping about the present ever-longer greens - and it comes right from the Czech Republic. It's Rick Woelfel, who starts a new assessment piece on the condition of the game by saying, If the course arrangement for the just-finished up PGA Championship was characteristic of where green plan is going, there are some foreboding shadows not too far off. The course, at Atlanta Athletic Club, played to 7,467 yards - excessively long for Woelfel's preferences. The following is a compressed adaptation of his discourse. It was initially posted at ExeGolf.com, a "local area entryway" worked by the European Society YOOP SE. Our anxiety is that in an endless exertion to secure against the abilities of the present visiting experts, fairway planners and competition executives have started a precedent which has brought about courses getting progressively troublesome, maybe excessively troublesome, for the normal golf player