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Originally Posted by ClubChamp04
I don't wanna answer for bo, but I think the tour guys like them fast to a certain point. Not that it's easier to putt on fast greens, but that's what they're used to. Their stroke is grooved for around 11-12 on the stimp(just a guess) and their rhythm gets all out of whack when the greens slow up.
They take dead aim when in soft conditions and the greens still roll how they like.
This is pretty accurate. The greens on Tour are the exact same speed week after week. And on top of that they are nearly perfect. Therefore speed is rarely a problem, and if you know the green speed, you also know exactly how much it will break. Conversely, if you don't know the speed, you can't gauge the exact amount of break.
Also, speed and softness of greens are not necessarily related. You can have soft fast greens, you can have hard slow greens, you can have soft slow greens, etc. The softer the greens, the easier the scoring conditions.
And most of the time, the faster the greens are, the thinner the blade of grass, meaning everything is much more consistent because the grass affects the ball very little. On the flip side, slow greens usually have lots of thicker blades of grass, causing more inconsistencies in the roll of the ball off the putter.
Look at it this way, if every golf course you went to had the exact same speed of greens, wouldn't that make putting much easier? Even if that speed was 13 on the stimp?
BO