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Originally Posted by jk3a
What dont you like about the par 5s?
#5 at 527 leaves most of the field hitting 3 wood off the tee as is already so you can’t really move the tees up and accomplish anything. From there is it a dumb split fairway that really serves no purpose other than to help out people who hit a bad tee shot and are blocked out because you have to hit it a perfect distance off the tee to get it around the corner. So it is just a bad hole with current technology.
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#11 also has a creek cutting across the fairway at 320 per the scorecard on PGAtour.com so you can’t move the tees up there to create a par 4 but you also have a pretty boring par 5. Again, just due to technology.
#15 looks like you have to walk single file down the fairway it is so narrow between the tree canopy. Even the PGAtour.com description says “An unusual par 5….not to mention the trees crowding in left and right”.
18 is just a rinky dink 444 yard par 4 that again due to technology is just meh. Can’t really get aggressive on the hole as it is just too penal to take the risk so you wind up hitting something short off the tee but you have to get it past the tree on the inside corner or you are blocked out.
The entire course just seems small and dated IMO. Looks like Hilton Head where it is just too confining for major championship golf. Again, I haven’t watched much of it but from what I have seen it just seems a little Mickey Mouse to me.
And to the question of you don’t have to change the par 5’s…apparently the USGA thinks you do. The last time an Open was held on a par 72 was Pebble Beach in 1992 which they changed to a par 71 the next time they played there.