Sentry Tournament of Champions discussion thread

There just isn't much trouble there that top pros are going to find. I'm excited to see the first golf after the holiday break, but the actual competition is very bland.

I don't get the Golf Channel, so I didn't get to see much coverage. I love watching it, since I played there 2 months into my golfing career.

There is plenty of trouble for beginner golfers or golfers who spray it all over the place, but the pro's just don't do that often, so I agree that there is not much trouble for them.

34 under? That's crazy talk. Huge greens, huge fairways and a par 73 course mean low scores for the pro's.

No wind to speak of, avg. speed greens, wide fwys = 3 pros beating the all-time scoring record.
The course might be due for an update.

Eguller

Fairways were running out faster than greens I putt on

colej In that case I might have had a chance to hit a drive 250 yards. With the wind behind. And on a downhill hole.

Eguller

You are too late - that happened two and-a-half years ago when fairways were restored to their originally designed, faster, speeds. Which didn't help this year due to so much rain before the event.

You do realize the winning score two years ago was -14? The players didn't get twenty strokes better ... the conditions this week, which were pretty rare, got about ten strokes easier (really tough two years ago). The course was built to accommodate 20-30 mph winds and over 500 feet of elevation changes (noticeably different than Waialae's Sony open which is pretty much entirely flat). If you gave this course "average" tour sized fairways and greens - the pros would boycott it, their caddies too (lugging around an extra four dozen balls up/down those hills), and hardly anyone would enjoy watching the provisional and drop-fest. And worse, as a "resort course", it would close. No one would ever want to play it more than once.

I'm amazed at how well they do with the drastic elevation changes. They actually have to think... caddies cna't tell them what to do.

That course looks enormous and steep as hell in parts; like it takes up most of the island. Some courses just look huge I guess. I had never gone to Bethpage until the 2019 PGA and I felt like I was lost deep in the woods even though I was on Long Island.