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And what's wrong with beige?
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And what's wrong with beige?
Mel Smooth
Hacker
The wounds are healing. 
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
ReallyThe wounds are healing.
Mel Smooth
Hacker
Really
Yes Homer.
Cast your mind back a year or two and LIV golfers were pretty much blanked out from any kind of media coverage by the DPWT, and were frozen out of Ryder Cup selection - so to see both those organisations congratulating Hatton on a fine win, is definitely a step or two in the right direction, is it not?
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
Not sure we have peace in our time just yet
Arthur Wedge
Well-known member
It’s just a social media post - at the moment Hatton is still a member of the DP Tour and eligible to play in the Ryder Cup
Lots of clutching going on
Mel Smooth
Hacker
I never said we did, but we’re moving rapidly towards it, especially on this side of the Atlantic
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
Clutching at straws. Until it's agreed you cannot know how it will play out
Beezerk
Money List Winner
Surely we can discuss the subject though rather than just trying to shut down anything remotely positive about it
Orikoru
Tour Winner
Hatton played in the last Ryder Cup and I'm certain he will also play in the next one, so I think we might be making a mountain out of a molehill here.Surely we can discuss the subject though rather than just trying to shut down anything remotely positive about it
Arthur Wedge
Well-known member
Surely we can discuss the subject though rather than just trying to shut down anything remotely positive about it
Tour golf over the last 2 years has been battered and pulled apart
We all know that people watching the sport at tour level has dropped so something needs to happen
But I don’t know what it will be - can’t see it being good for the fans but only good for the golfers, those at the top will get richer
If only there was some way to have players playing on their home tours and then the majors
Doon frae Troon
Ryder Cup Winner
I'm with Bob MacIntyre in calling for the road hole to be blown up.
Crazy golf hole as it now plays.
If a designer copied it into a new course design he would be sacked toot sweet and would never get another gig.
Crazy golf hole as it now plays.
If a designer copied it into a new course design he would be sacked toot sweet and would never get another gig.
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
I like it. After the opening drive and the walk over Swilken Bridge it is the only other real feature of playing the Old course which isn't the most inspiring piece of land otherwise. How would you design it?
Slab
Occasional Tour Caddy
Off topic
I'm not picking you up but that phrase was something my mum would often to say to us when we were wee kids. I only found out recently (being in a place that speaks a lot of french) its actually 'tout de suite'
(& no one says it) Doon frae Troon
Ryder Cup Winner
Shorten it by 40 yards would be a start.
Fill in the bunker would entice golfers to play skillful positive shots to the green [imagine the pros hitting 6 irons into the 18th green]. The approach slopes are enough of a hazard.
Perhaps a couple of fairway bunkers like the left side tee shot at 18th at Wentworth
Stop choosing crazy pin positions.
Over the years they have contrived to make the hole unplayable
Fill in the bunker would entice golfers to play skillful positive shots to the green [imagine the pros hitting 6 irons into the 18th green]. The approach slopes are enough of a hazard.
Perhaps a couple of fairway bunkers like the left side tee shot at 18th at Wentworth
Stop choosing crazy pin positions.
Over the years they have contrived to make the hole unplayable
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
Are you filling the road hole bunker in? If you are making it shorter why would you fill the bunker as well
Depreston
Club Champion
ABH
Anyone But Hatton
Ruined my Sunday
The Hatton thing is weird if an American went on like him he’d be absolutely vilified
Doon frae Troon
Ryder Cup Winner
At the length the hole plays off nowadays the clever Pros [eg Hatton] go way left off the tee and play for the normal 18th tee.
Sheds/Road/Bunker are all obsolete
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
Interesting take. I'd like to keep it in if only for a poor approach
garyinderry
Ryder Cup Winner
Didn't get to see the recent tournament.
Was the green so firm that it couldn't hold a good approach shot?
Was the green so firm that it couldn't hold a good approach shot?
