EdJaws:
That is a good idea Paul and agree but I don't imagine WGT tournaments will change.
In my CC we run tournament with everything from slow to tournament green and no one has ever said anything negative about it. It's the variety that makes playing fun and frustrating at the same time. But it's all in good sportsmanship.
What's more troubling is wind direction will cause someone to have an advantage or disadvantage in these tournaments. A person might get a favorable wind on a particular hole that may be a huge difference maker.
I'd like to see WGT pin the wind so it's the same for everyone, e.g. everyone has a 10 MPH headwind on hole 1, everyone has a 10 o'clock, 12 MPH, L to R crosswind on hole 2, and so on.
I recently ran a CC bracket tournament that was single play on 4 different courses. It was a huge success but a few players felt that wind conditions might not be fair for the reason I stated above. Particularly if a high tier player was matched up against a lower tier one due to their tee boxes and possible heavy wind disadvantage.
With the equipment being tied to level instead of tier, I can see their point.
Agree totally with what you're saying about the wind set up, why this has to varied from player to player I'll never know. How is that a level playing field?
I think it was many weeks ago I had a helpfull wind on the reachable par 5's. Makes the best of Par 5 very unfair unless you're given the good winds.
I have the same problem with my comps, the links courses are rarely set stronger than moderate. We all love the challenge of high winds on those courses but it's silly for one player to have a 30mph headwind and the next to have a tailwind.
WGT have the ability to set what ever tee boxes and green speeds they want for all entrants, happens in many comps, why not apply that to the weekly's?