What exactly is the point of places like Oakmont and Olympic? Even some of the links courses in England...
I know WGT is just making them as they are, and they making the Major courses as they are played each year.
But seriously...What is fun about playing near impossible courses. I know there are about 200 people on here who can and they shoot well...But the other couple million users? So it's almost as if all the money on building these courses, real or virtual is for the benefit of the elite few...once again making golf an inaccessible game for the "average" person. If you have the money, you don't have the skills. If you don't have the money then you simply can't play. Golf is supposed to be fun...grinding out a +1 is not fun man.
Par: An amount or level considered to be average; a standard: performing up to...
I would love to see some of the big wigs at the R&A shoot par on some of the courses they setup for the majors each year. "Average"..."Standard"...Pfft.
Just because it measures a certain distance does not simply mean that a hole should average a certain amount of strokes in order to get there in "par". If you make it long...Sure that's a test, but making it long, crammed full of obstacles, fast enough for a 747 to take off from the greens at about 5 meters of run way and has more slopes than K2, how is that fair to the definition of the word "par"?
Yes golf should also test players...But when does testing them fall into the realms of the ridiculous? When 99% of the field fall below par on a Sunday after 4 rounds? Even for the viewer it can be a bit painful if not laborious. I don't like watching the worlds best missing from 4 feet, or having a slightly off tee shot end up in a triple bogey.
Ok I'm just carrying on like a cry baby, I'll regret posting this later after I've calmed down, because this is the greatest sport there is, no doubt.
Just the ramblings of an aggravated "average" player. (virtual and real life)