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Originally Posted by golfer8
i just saw on the golf channel, one of the analyst were trying to see what differnet shots the pga tour players would be facing and sunk a 210 ft putt... yea thats right, 210 feet.. thats like 70 yards....
seems huge to me..maybe it was just that one green, but he had to almost make a half turn.. (his first try was like 80 ft short or somethign)..
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Yeah, that was Dave Pelz, the short game guru, illustrating the difficulty of putting on such huge greens. The first putt he hit ended up 50 feet short, so he blasted the second and the darn thing went in! They replayed that putt at least 10 times. Something else that he was trying to show was that a player on the front section of that 18th green could not putt his ball to the right or left sections because of the slope of the green that funnels balls to the middle, and because of the design that creates these "arms" that extend so far that you'd be putting over greenside rough to reach the hole. He mentioned that Phil is thinking about the possibility of chipping from that front position to pins on the sides if necessary.
This may be the only course in the world where you could wear yourself out just walking on the greens!