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. 

Lately, the courses that the PGA Tour plays have gotten progressively more; they are presently above and beyond 7,000 yards much of the time. Nobody is proposing that sporting players tackle a course of that length; something between 6,300 to 6,500 yards is bounty long enough for most novices. A case could be made that numerous individuals should tee it up nearer, to an even 6,000 yards, which permit them a genuine opportunity to arrive at most standard fours out of two or arrive at the twist in a dogleg without driving the ball 270 yards-in addition to. 

The issue is that as visit courses get longer, designers and greens boards feel constrained to make their own offices play progressively more and harder. Eventually, this causes a circumstance that turns out to be progressively disappointing for the normal player. At the point when the quantity of golf players has leveled off and when the business professes to be centered around "becoming the game," the people pulling the strings should take additional consideration not to drive golf players from the game by giving them playing conditions that are overpowering. 

On the off chance that the game is to proceed to flourish and endure, modelers should recall that not every person who plays their courses is a solitary digit handicapper. The game will be better for it.