USGA are they getting too gimmicky or is this a true test.

[palindromicbob]

There are two main playing areas on a course I that can sway my opinion of it.

Obviously one is the greens.

The other is the teeing area.

I like standing on a well manicured flat teeing area. Perfect place to start a hole.

The USGA will no doubt have perfectly manicured areas but maybe not flat.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/golf-...ll-tee-boxes-at-u-s--open-160539482-golf.html

What do you think?

 

[Ethan]

I presume this is about Chambers Bay. It provoked some criticism after the US Amateur won by Peter Uihlein. Looks like a links course of the sort we would recognise over here and will require creativity and patience from the players. Much better than the boring corridor golf with rough you have to wedge out of that the US Open used to be. These are supposed to be the best players in the world. They can play off sloping fairways so why not tees?

 

[Tongo]

For me there's 2 lines of thought:

1.) Yep, its either a gimmick or the USGA doing anything and everything to stop the best players going low.

or

2.) This may be one of the ways forward. How long can the pro game keep playing longer and longer courses? How soon until we see courses going beyond 8,000 yards? Fine for new tracks (although more expensive land wise) but not for traditional courses which are probably at their limits space wise. Players are hitting the ball so far now that something radical needs to be done to keep the main events a challenge. Other than reducing the fairways more / increasing green speed more to the point of farce.

 

[Captainron]

I think it's a good idea. They will hardly be huge slopes though. Maybe just enough to play tricks on the mind.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Disappointing they feel the need to want to try and "trick" the course up further. Other courses cope by having tough greens and brutal rough without needing to do anything weird and whacky

 

[Stuey01]

I'm well up for a bit of USGA bashing for tricking up courses ridiculously, but in this case they haven't actually done anything. This is just how the tee boxes are and have always been at Chambers Bay.