cycle1979:Are you all sure there is 2 kind of Tourney green speeds?? I've never noticed it but maybe I don't pay nearly as much attention to detail as some of you! Or is this another overanalysis/conspiracy theory?
Wow! I might have to pull a Mitt Romney and offer up a $10,000 bet. YES, there are 2 different tourney speeds and you don't really notice difference until you have putts over 10 feet when the disparity of the two speeds starts to grow.
When playing a MP or stroke play, we Legends always have the faster tournament speed. The problem comes in tournaments because WGT uses both tournament speeds without any way to know which tourney greens you are on.
For me, the idiocy of two different speeds named the same thing, tops the list of misguided WGT decisions. A close second is Legends that tier up quickly not having access to all equipment. Bad enough that lower tier players get to use the best equipment, but punishing someone for getting good rapidly seems wrong.
I get the fact that WGT rarely weighs in on meter performance because they have no idea how to remedy the problem, but their silence on this issue is very frustrating because it could be fixed so easily.