How Did Players React To Justin Thomas’s Memo?

2 Comments

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   @mikes417 7 months ago

   Just play the game faster. 5 hours for around? Enforce the pace of play rules

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   @chachichochacorta8577 7 months ago

   Just like the comment above, make them play faster. Basketball was not on a timeclock when it first began. Scores were very low. Sometime in the mid 1950s, they put them on the clock and scores went up exponentially. In football, they invented the play clock in the mid 1970s.
   Twenty seconds to hit your tee shot. No backing off for a bee, a moth, or changing wind direction, or because the crowd nearby cheered for a player in an adjacent hole. Just hit it.
   First person to putt takes thirty seconds, all others get fifteen seconds.
   Two minutes (not five) to find a lost ball.
   Balls that land in a fairway divot can be moved.
   No yardage books, no yardage markers.
   Bunkers shall NEVER be raked. EVER. It's a hazard. Let hazards do what they do best: frustrate the golfer.
   Narrow the fairway anywhere past 285 yards. Or, limit the fairway to 295, then have very deep rough for about 40 yards before opening up to a second fairway starting at around 335. Let's see who has the balls to go for it.
   Two driveable par 4s, one for each nine holes.
   Only one practice session either on Tuesday or Wednesday, or you can practice front nine on Tuesday and back nine on Wednesday. I actually prefer no practice session, but some fans like to see them practice on the course.
   Only ten club limit per bag (simply take out even numbered irons). Two wedges max.
   More importantly, every golfer plays the same exact ball, just like they do in most sports.
   And MOST importantly, crowds can cheer as loudly as they do at a football, baseball, hockey, or basketball game.