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rolltide1017 · 01-24-2015, 10:53 AM

Well, my fear is that some designers, like the ones who place every pin on a severe slope, would use OB to artificially increase the difficulty of their courses. Like having narrow fairways with even narrower rough areas before hitting OB, basically using it in unrealistic ways. We all know this will happen, probably by some of the so called "great" designers because some of them are some of the worst offenders of the severe slope pin placements (which I find really odd how accepted this practice has become in TGC when we use to rip TW apart for the same thing).

01-24-2015, 10:53 AM	#6
rolltide1017 Pro OVR: 7 Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Montgomery, AL Posts: 686	Re: The Golf Club Looking to Add Retainer Walls to Courses, Changes to Handicap Syste Well, my fear is that some designers, like the ones who place every pin on a severe slope, would use OB to artificially increase the difficulty of their courses. Like having narrow fairways with even narrower rough areas before hitting OB, basically using it in unrealistic ways. We all know this will happen, probably by some of the so called "great" designers because some of them are some of the worst offenders of the severe slope pin placements (which I find really odd how accepted this practice has become in TGC when we use to rip TW apart for the same thing).