Science of Golf: Course Setup
USGA executive director Mike Davis and Jeff Hall, USGA managing director of Rules, Competitions and Amateur Status, discuss the STEM thoughts behind the U.S. Open set up at Pinehurst Resort's Course No. 2. Visit www.NBCLearn.com for more.
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Fair? LMAO they dont care about fair and they have proven this time and time again
Why don't they play together? It's golf. If fat old men can win, why can't a fit woman win. This isn't combat sports.
People at the golf courses are always good at maintaining a refined golf course that's easy to use in all weather. Good way to enjoy nature, design & curb appeal
How many times have the USGA screwed up the set up of the course?
We have none of this at the course I work at. Drop the pin not too close to the fringe, and don't drop a pin in the middle of a slope, or on top of a bump.
Sorry USGA, you have a lot of thought, intellect, and science going into your courses, but when you're forced to bring out a crew to hand water several greens DURING A TOURNAMENT ROUND you're clearly doing something very very wrong.
When they say “fair test” it’s subjective.?
Wait, the stimpmeter is raised by hand and doesn't have a fixed height? That doesn't make any sense.
Some of those measuring instruments can involve human error/influence. I can imagine fairly easy fixes to make them more accurate and consistent. Why they haven't made such fixes already…who knows
All this cool technology can't fix stupid.
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this all seems a bit extreme. One of the advantages to links golf I suppose.
Greens that are super fast are sh*t greens
I consider my home course pretty fair. But it could be super hard if they tucked pins and grew the rough and sped up the greens even more then they already are
omg i will stick to athletic fields.
USGA couldn't set up a piss-up in a brewery. That's why The Open is and always will be the no.1 major in golf.
In the interest of equality, men and women should really be playing from the same tee boxes now. It's like a female football field is smaller than a males or a female sprinter runs 80 yards to male 100 in the olympics. a tennis court is a tennis court – I could go on!
US Open is a joke. Pinehurst was cool though.