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Old August 16th, 2004, 07:29 AM
greenguy greenguy is offline
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I thot Justin would win it after his 2nd shot on 15. Your right - this was a major where other people lost it. VJ has to be given his due with his tee shot on 10 in the playoff - made the aggressive play when it was needed and played well enough for 3 days to have the cushion when he didn't play as well (nobody played that well on Sun, so he certainly wasn't alone). My biggest question on Sun was where was this course for the other 3 days? Wind was the major reason, but finally they used more difficult hole locations. I think the PGA, understandably, was very concerned that they could easily make this course next to impossible for 4 days and chose to make it easier the first 3 rounds. I give them props for how they set the course up for Sun - they moved up the tees on 6 to encourage players to try to drive the green. If this had been the USGA, they would have never done that - everyone would have hit their irons off the tee followed by a wedge shot. Boring. Even #5 (a par 5) had it's risk-reward element being down wind. #8 tee was moved back because it was downwind, after playing from the foward tee for 3 days due to the fact it played more into the wind. Yes, they saved the most difficult hole location for certain holes (#12 comes to mind), for Sun, but didn't make them impossible either. These observations on the course set up would seem to be common sense to most of us, but after what we saw this June, it was nice to see that common sense prevailed.

We finally got to see what everyone was talking about b4 the tournament - WS made par an excellent test on Sun without having the course set up over the top.
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