If your golf course was TOUR STANDARD would you play better?

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Perfect greens, cut, rolled, ironed, 11.5 on the stimp, no crowned holes, wide MOWN fairways (with lots of run), trees with no prickles/bracken or this seasons leaves piled up in there, manicured rough, raked bunkers, no stones in there... you name it, think of the perfect course...

... would your handicap be LOWER?

I'm just wondering whether you've ever considered that your course actually holds you back... and how you feel about that?
 
I don't think i would be any better.
I've been lucky enough to play a few good courses either before or straight after pro tour events so the courses are set up the best they possibly can be and no i don't think it's especially helped.

You mention wide fairways, my experience has always been that they grow them in then shape them so they usually play narrower.....especially at the meagre distance i hit drives compared to a tour pro.
 
I might play better, but then so would everyone else. Standard scratch would come down, and I still wouldn't get cut.

I would like to give it a go though.
 
I think it would save a few shots. When I see the pros on tv I always think how good the fringes of the greens look. I always seem to get a bare lie when it comes to chipping and wedge play. I must admit though, the first time I saw my course mid-summer last year it looked like Wentworth so it seems when the summer comes this year I wont have that excuse.
 
Im sure i would play better in fact i could guarantee it,my home course is council run,full of divots,trees,ponds rivers,tight fairways,poor greens,if anyone is near Taunton anytime PM come and play me and see for yourself.
 
I think the better players would rise to the top.

Proof of this is when they slicken up our greens for the club champs, some of the scores are horrendous due to poor putting being exposed by quick greens. People will regularly putt off the green on our 1st, 4th, 14th and 16th.
 
I would play better no doubt,courses are set up for the pro's so they don't experience all of the things we normally have to put up with. Things like as you mentioned, holes cut on ridiculous slants with holes that have been pulled out but not flattened around the cup,bunkers with compacted sand and full of stones and uneven slanted tees.Oh and let's not forget the Sun, it's always bloody warm where the pro's play these days.
 
It depends on what tour standard you are talking about. FOr a normal type event then maybe, just maybe I'd cope with the lightning quick greens, manicured fairways and tees that are somewhere near level. However if you are talking US or Open standard where the greens are just that bit slicker, the fairways pinched in that bit tighter then no. Add in the rough you get and thats a NO.

I think in general it would be like playing your club championship course everyday and I think it would see the better player performing with more regularity although there's nothing on our course that would stop a higher handicapper shooting well on their day.
 
I'm used to greens with a speed of about 7, so I would have thought my joe bloggs golfers would be struggling on the greens. If given that sort of condition over a couple of years I would probably be spending more time in the bar drinking my sorrows away than making birdies!!!
 
I'm just wondering whether you've ever considered that your course actually holds you back... and how you feel about that?
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If my course was tour standard, I'd be in trouble, 'cause it would be unbearably long.
If it's was properly designed I reckon I could have a lower handicap.

ergo, If it was essentially the same course, only with the silly holes redesigned and the condition superb, then possibly I could knock a shot or two off.
 
Im not sure if it is coincidence or not but I have played a couple of courses that were only a couple of days after national competitions, Templepatrick (had the irish ladies in 2007)and Baltray (Irish open, where Shayne Lowery beat Robert Rock on the 3rd hole playoff). I was 2 under after 5 holes including a miraculous up and down from the front right bunker (cant see anything but sand and the top of the lip leads to the sky!).
Ended both rounds well under my handicap and found the faster greens easier to roll the ball. putts under 10 feet seemed easier there than any other clubs where the greens were quick but not just as smooth.
 
It wouldn't be a decent forum if all the replies were to be expected, but I can't believe people would want to play on slower greens where you have to whack the putts to get them to run straight over the bumps/spike marks and footprints.

How about tee boxes where you can't seem to find a suitable place where the ball isn't either 2 inches above or below your feet... is there someone who also prefers those? :(
 
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