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Course length of 7,435 yards would likely give a SSS of 75.

So, taking the best of the first three rounds, the top three after 54 holes (Scott, Cabrera, Snedeker) each had a low of 69 and our handicap sec would be giving them a +6. Day, Kuchar and Fowler would be getting a +7 with their 68s.

Slightly pointless thread, but hey, I found it interesting :D
 
I'm sure I read somewhere that if a club golfer was allowed to play every hole at Augusta teeing off 100yds from the green they would struggle to break 80
 
HawkeyeMS said:
I'm sure I read somewhere that if a club golfer was allowed to play every hole at Augusta teeing off 100yds from the green they would struggle to break 80
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I have two friends who have played Augusta, one is scratch one off 7, neither broke 80, both said it was the greens where there shots went, as if your on the wrong part you 3 putt or worse.
 
HawkeyeMS said:
I'm sure I read somewhere that if a club golfer was allowed to play every hole at Augusta teeing off 100yds from the green they would struggle to break 80
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Yeah its like trying to stop the ball on a block of ice on the greens from a few things i read about it. Would need to catch it just right to get the stop and then if you miss the green chipping onto them is also brutal :D

I would probably enjoy going round there in 150 though, its that kind of place where score is irrelevent.
 
duncan mackie said:
more like 78-79
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It could well be that after adjustments. The base is on length, then course specific changes are made, which at Augusta would nearly all be up.

There's something quite humbling about the thought that a tour pro playing 'to handicap' around our courses would need to shoot low 60s just to hit buffer.
 
Not Augusta but I'm sure I heard a story (possibly apocryphal) about a visiting party of club pros who played Sawgrass the week after The Players a few years back, on the Sunday setup. Not one of them broke 80. Davis Love III had shot 67 the previous Sunday to win.

There's a marked difference between club pros and tour pros. The difference between tour pros and jokers like the rest of us isn't worth contemplating.
 
mcbroon said:
Not Augusta but I'm sure I heard a story (possibly apocryphal) about a visiting party of club pros who played Sawgrass the week after The Players a few years back, on the Sunday setup. Not one of them broke 80. Davis Love III had shot 67 the previous Sunday to win.

There's a marked difference between club pros and tour pros. The difference between tour pros and jokers like the rest of us isn't worth contemplating.
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I've said this before on here but it is apt here.

Harrington told us at Carton house the other year that if he played his brother (off 10) at his brothers club. His brother played off the whites and Paddy played off the tips, he would give his brother 10 shots and it would be a good game. If his brother wanted to play off the tips with Paddy he would give him 16 shots and it would be a good game. If they played a course paddy chose and had setup for a pro event he would give his brother as many shots as he wanted because he wouldn't win.
 
HawkeyeMS said:
I've said this before on here but it is apt here.

Harrington told us at Carton house the other year that if he played his brother (off 10) at his brothers club. His brother played off the whites and Paddy played off the tips, he would give his brother 10 shots and it would be a good game. If his brother wanted to play off the tips with Paddy he would give him 16 shots and it would be a good game. If they played a course paddy chose and had setup for a pro event he would give his brother as many shots as he wanted because he wouldn't win.
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That depends on his brothers game, there are good 10 handicappers and bad ones. I played with someone off 17 the same as me and they were playing a completely different sport in the way they went about things.
 
lyden said:
That depends on his brothers game, there are good 10 handicappers and bad ones. I played with someone off 17 the same as me and they were playing a completely different sport in the way they went about things.
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They are both 10 handicappers though, call one good and one bad, if they knock it round in 10 over they are the same.
 
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