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With golf, there are other dimensions course designers could use to make the pro game less about distance. Tighter fairways, faster greens, etc.
by benmathes 1y ago
With golf, there are other dimensions course designers could use to make the pro game less about distance. Tighter fairways, faster greens, etc.
- nemo44x 1y agoThey do. But there’s a line between arbitrary and fair. One of the things players want most is for outcomes to not be random/arbitrary and for skill to be judged fairly. That good shots are rewarded and bad shots penalized. The game already has a lot of that baked in so no need to make it more so. TPC Sawgrass is the closest to a perfect pro course (PGA National second I guess) since it was designed specifically for it. I think a course perfectly optimized for pro play would be very different from what most people would expect.