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Tournament greens speed.

• TaterNater 545 Posts

  Tue, Jun 1 2010 4:12 PM

  Very hard to leave a putt short on these lighting fast greens!!!!!!!!

• PorkyWalrus 607 Posts

  Tue, Jun 1 2010 4:26 PM

  I did a lippy lippy dubba dippy on one hole, it ended up 21 feet away! I had several lip outs go few feet off the hole.

• TheLighterDark 1,404 Posts

  Tue, Jun 1 2010 4:56 PM

  Hole #2 is unbelievable... many putts and approach shots that should be two feet away more than ten feet out.

• pinkgirl34 59 Posts

  Tue, Jun 1 2010 5:33 PM

  I felt that I was extremely lucky to shoot 78 both times when I tried playing it. The greens are absolutely brutal (I had 4 three-putts my previous round), because it's hard to stop your first putt within 5 feet of the hole. Although I think St. Andrews is even more of a 3-putt country, with greens even more difficult than the ones at Oakmont.

• Doublemochaman 2,009 Posts

  Tue, Jun 1 2010 5:43 PM

  Pinkgirl... just wait until the hilly St. Andrews greens are tournament speed.  If I could have a nickle (make that a dime for today's economy) for every curse word uttered...

• golferrrrr 44 Posts

  Wed, Jun 2 2010 4:44 AM

  Is Tournament greens faster than master very fast greens?

• Snaike 3,678 Posts

  Wed, Jun 2 2010 11:55 AM

  golferrrrr:

  Is Tournament greens faster than master very fast greens?

  In a word:  Yes.

• marioh 1,055 Posts

  Wed, Jun 2 2010 11:59 AM

  Spaceballs had the perfect term for the new green speeds:

  Ludicrous Speed.

• billy8581 6 Posts

  Thu, Jun 3 2010 9:57 AM

  i have worked the green speed out to within a yard, sadly my aiming and approach shots and back 9 knowledge leave me with a 67 instead of a 60 :-(, hard to keep plugging away when u have -6 after 9 holes and then end up with 3 bogeys on back 9, but i have plenty of time to practice :-), i love it a real challenge for all.

• Dooshee 6 Posts

  Thu, Jun 3 2010 2:35 PM

  I can honestly say that putting on these tournament greens is more difficult than real life putting.  I just tapped a ball which would normally go about 3 feet...it went 28.