Quote Originally Posted by Returnofrros View Post
Go big or go home.....fairways seem to be more forgiving with changes to courses and trying to speed up play by making it less difficult.

You know I like a wee stat.....here's one that convinced me to swing faster for as long as my health permits.

I only hit 7% less GIR from the rough as I do from the fairway but I hit 13% more GIR from 130 yds in than I do from 130 to 150.

So 400 yard hole if I can knock it 270 from the tee I'm still probably gonna be better AFF, find the fairway and I'm defo gonna be better AFF.

Now I better go start a football thread to compensate for that....as punishment.
Thank you for your post which explains why there are so many club golfers with a low handicap.
The golf courses are becoming to easy to play.
I do not agree with your post that cutting back the rough is to speed up play.
Up to the middle of the 1960’s golfers used to take a maximum of 3 hours to play a round of golf on an 18 hole golf course.
Then American professional golfers who took for ever to play a round of golf appeared on our television sets and golfers in the U.K. decided to copy them.
Slow play was one of the reasons that I gave up playing golf because I was brought to play golf without undue delay, not take over four hours to play a round of golf.
The biggest problem I found both as a member of Downfield GC and Islay GC was that the members who were notorious for playing slowly and holding up the rest of the course did not consider themselves to be slow when playing a round of golf.