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    baxter cepeda

    It’s funny people think old munis have easy greens. It’s often the opposite because there is not army of rich embers to demand softening areas.

    From what I heard the greens are firm and fast and have a lot of slope, although some slope has been softened, but likely not as much as Pebble, Sherwood, and many other rich man courses courses whom keep making the surfaces easier and easier; which is nonsense.mist designers build their courses so over time the green surrounding get trickier and trickier. But that is often sadly eliminated with the redesigns.
    Shame imo.

    The Brooks vs DJ thing is pretty easy right now. I’m not saying BK can’t beat DJ but Any bettor would have to stick with the well rested Covid survivor. No?

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      Tom Edrington

      Bax: My favorite public course, once upon a time was the North Palm Beach Golf Club….LOTS of older “members” totally public, easy to play, you could get around in less than four hours, in season they’d have two shotgun starts on busiest days (winter); THEN, they let Nicklaus re-design it — Jack basically made it unplayable for the older guys — deep, deep bunkers, dinosaurs buried under greens and all that stuff, then they did an $18 million renovation on club house; They won’t get a dime’s return on all that money spent. You can’t make greens difficult on municipal courses as it creates slow play….on a side note, interesting how two years ago Koepka was looking totally like Superman…..now, who knows what he’ll be.

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        baxter cepeda

        I don’t know about greens slowing down recreational play.
        Fast tough greens slow elite play but most recreational guys 3 and 4 jack tough greens faster than most pros 1 putt them.

        But I agree about bunkers slow recreational play, which is why so many courses have eliminated bunkers, especially fairway bunkers. Especially considering bunkers are less of a challenge for good players than rough.

        Bunkers are needed but if Augusta has taught us anything, less is more, especially with bunkers.

        This brooks course in Houston cut their bunkers To Just a couple dozen i heard yesterday. But again, the greens will be tough supposedly.

        And this muni is almost 7500 yards with tough Bermuda rough. Of course the regulars shouldn’t play it that way but it’s awesome a municipal can be stretched for the best in the world.

        Brooks needs to get fully healthy. He is wasting time. Like tiger has often in his career brooks is saying all the right things about his health. But like tiger we just Don’t know.

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