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.

For daily updates from the United States Golf Association, visit us at www.usga.org, on Twitter (www.Twitter.com/USGA; www.Twitter.com/usopengolf) and on Facebook (www.Facebook.com/USGA; www.Facebook.com/USOPEN).

19 thoughts on “Science of Golf: Course Setup

  1. 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

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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!

Leave a Reply