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Re: Courses

• 88vettebob 48 Posts

  Fri, Nov 15 2013 10:03 AM

  Of all the stroke play courses, the free ones, which one do you think is the easiest??

  Bob

   

• fitzroy1965 337 Posts

  Fri, Nov 15 2013 12:30 PM

  I believe the 2 hardest are merion and olympic.  As for the easiest prolly no definitive answer to that, some players are great on certain courses and not so much on others. Just play them all and evetually you will find a few that you always seem to do better at than others.Personally I find I'm always pretty good at BP, kiawa, st.andy's and oakmont but not so much at RSG or congressional.

• TarheelsRule 5,604 Posts

  Fri, Nov 15 2013 12:42 PM

  It is somewhat dependent upon which tier you are at.   In terms of a non legend, I would think that St Andrews and Kiawah are both about even, when you get to legend, they both get much longer and much more difficult.

  BPB is fairly difficult but when you move to legend it doesn't become much harder.  Since those of us who are Legends or higher rarely get to play the shorter tees anymore sometimes we forget how much easier STA and Kiawah were back 'in the day'.   A good example is I think the 13th hole at Kiawah is around 485 to a fairly narrow fairway from the Legend tees, basically a good drive and then around 190 to the pin.  From the up tees it is around 390, a drive and a 100 yard wedge.  

• CerinoDevoti 3,232 Posts

  Fri, Nov 15 2013 1:02 PM

  88vettebob:

  Of all the stroke play courses, the free ones, which one do you think is the easiest??

  Bob

  All the courses are the easiest. Just play all of them equally and you'll find out.