McGinley Speaks

Lawrence Donegan in The Guardian has one of many reports on Paul McGinley's BMW comments about course setup, lengthening the Old Course and the need to tuck European Tour hole locations in order to help their players in the majors. It seems that McGinley wants to see more European events featuring the American approach of tucked holes on firm greens. Not sure how much American golf presents firm greens, but the tucked locations seemed to be part of a movement toward low score prevention, not necessarily an effort to enhance strategy as McGinley hopes would happen.

Speaking of hole locations and low score prevention tactics, Colin Montgomerie had this to say after round 2 at the BMW:

Q. How about some of the pin placements?

COLIN MONTGOMERIE: I've seen a few today that I haven't seen before. 7 for five, I don't know where that came from; it was dark, I suppose. And then there was one, a few others I think that were very near, cutting into slopes, but I suppose that's okay. Don't get me wrong. Technology is making it that way that the pins are a lot, lot closer to the edges of the green than I've ever found before. There used to be a rule that it used to be three paces, three paces on the greens, but they don't seem to be adhering to that rule anymore. Technology I suppose says that. You can stop the ball quicker, the balls are stopping quicker, so there's no problem there. It's preventing scoring around here, that's for sure.