In the early 90s, the club and ball technology really started shortening the course and lessening the challenge; and at the May Regionals, the visiting teams bombed it in a way that make a mockery of the holes, the fourth hole especially. I wish the solution--the much easier solution-- was to ROLL BACK THE BALL, but instead it will require a new back deep tee halfway up the rocky hill 40 yards behind the current 440 back tee...which is still a beast into a stiff north wind in April. [/size] In the early 90s, the club and ball technology really started shortening the course and lessening the challenge; and at the May Regionals, the visiting teams bombed it in a way that make a mockery of the holes, the fourth hole especially. I wish the solution--the much easier solution-- was to ROLL BACK THE BALL, but instead it will require a new back deep tee halfway up the rocky hill 40 yards behind the current 440 back tee...which is still a beast into a stiff north wind in April. [/color][/size] the early 90s, the club and ball technology really started shortening the course and lessening the challenge; and at the May Regionals, the visiting teams bombed it in a way that make a mockery of the holes, the fourth hole especially. I wish the solution--the much easier solution-- was to ROLL BACK THE BALL, but instead it will require a new back deep tee halfway up the rocky hill 40 yards behind the current 440 back tee...which is still a beast into a stiff north wind in April.”[/color]
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[/size]Colin, I’ll second your call for a ball rollback. I volunteered at the regionals in May and was stationed at the 4th tee. Everyone one of the players took a line directly over the pond on 4 and only had short irons into the green. Not one ball even close to landing in the hazard. [/color]