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Originally Posted by ANTHONY792
Listened to a Radio show(local/Scottish) this morning whilst out in the tractor helping father in law, they were debating whether to put in about 8-10 new, wide, pot bunkers in front of the most vunerable holes on the Old Course (ie the driveable par 4s and the 2 par 5s) and they called this "Tiger Proofing", I,ve never heard any one mention "Singh Proofing" or "Ernie/Phil/Retief Proofing" I think that says it all!
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Funny thing is Their Tiger proofing did nothing of the sort....
By lengthening holes, it had the effect of playing into what Tiger is good at & proofed the course against other players.
I wonder what would have happened had pins been moved forward & not back, what exactly would have happened. And bunkers anyone can fall prey to & that is exactly what happened...
As for making bunkers wider is not going to make them more difficult to get out of, fine, it'll be easier to get caught in one, but that is about it. If a player is a good bunker player, they would have to have a particularly bad lye to end up in real trouble, even though St Andrews bunkers resembled some sort of cross between moon craters, the somme & jurassic Sink Holes
