| lol umm golf in america is pretty big ...most courses aren't prepared to be tough for the avgerage golfer...they keep the rough short so the fun golfer thats out there to have fun enjoys it ...cuz not everyone wants a challenge although any good golfer will tell you he rather shoot 100 at pebble beach or st andrews that challenged him then shoot 59 at some easy course that didn't...and don't tell us that courses over there aren't like ours cuz i have seen ones just like ours...Although i do agree with you to a certain extent your conditions are tougher. You have more wind /weather increments but that is also subject to change in the usa ask any texan golfer. They sure can play in the wind.
1982 Tom Watson 284 USA
1983 Tom Watson 275 USA
1984 Severiano Ballesteros 276
1985 Sandy Lyle 282
1986 Greg Norman 280 AUS
1987 Nick Faldo 279
1988 Seve Ballesteros 273
1989 Mark Calcavecchia 275 USA
1990 Nick Faldo 270
1991 Ian Baker-Finch 272
1992 Nick Faldo 272
1993 Greg Norman 267 AUS
1994 Nick Price 268
1995 John Daly 282 USA
1996 Tom Lehman 271 USA
1997 Justin Leonard 272 USA
1998 Mark O'Meara 280 USA
1999 Paul Lawrie 290
2000 Tiger Woods 269 USA
2001 David Duval 274 USA
2002 Ernie Els 278 South Africa
2003 Ben Curtis 283 USA
2004 Todd Hamilton 274 USA
2005 Tiger Woods 274 USA
2006 Tiger Woods 270 USA
13 out of the last 24 (over 50%) british opens are from the USA ...sounds like those hard courses don't help you prep for the british open on those HARD courses. Maybe they should practice more in the USA lol. Like ponda said best golfers still win. Golf is just a more of an enjoyable game in the usa so alot of older ppl play alot and leisure golfers (not very serious) so courses were designed to let them play. instead of them hacking it up on the nice courses even though rich ppl still do that(but if you pay for it no one is gonna stop you). I mean wats the fun for an 80 yr old trying to hit out of 5 inch rough ..he'll break his hips trying to get it out.. But i won't take this rant by you to serious, I think you just had a bad round at your course today. Keep playing you'll get better : ) ....
Last edited by Foster4 : 06-07-2007 at 01:03 AM.
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