Rough Reviews***
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 at 09:57 PM Tom Hanson in the Naples News (reg required) repo rts that the TPC Sawgrass is playing soft and slow. And he quotes Tiger, who seems to be joining the list of players not so fond of the U.S. Open set up at Sawgrass.
"It would be a lot better if there was no rough at all," Woods said. "When we first came here there was no rough and that's how it's meant to be played, but they've kind of changed since then and gone more to a U.S. Open-type setup."
Next
thing you know, they'll say they don't like the Augusta-like flowers,
the Augusta-like pin striping, the Augusta-like theme music, the
Augusta-like maintained pine needle patches, the Augusta-like jacket
ceremony or all of the other not-so original ideas designed to take the
character right out of the place. Brats they are, I tell you!
***Update: Thanks to reader Tim for this debate between Bob Harig and Ron Sirak,
where Sirak says 17 at Sawgrass isn't the most exciting hole in golf
because there are no options or decisions to make. Love it that he's
talking options and decisions, but what hole is he watching? Watch the
players try and decide if they are going to flirt with any of the
traditional hole locations.