Groove Rule Changes Ushers In Youth Movement!

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Jason Day wins at 22 as Jordan Spieth contends at 16, just weeks after Rory McIlroy wins the ninth major and Ryo Ishikawa shoots 58 to win on the Asian Tour. Just as we predicted, reverting back to grooves reacting like late 80s non-PING's has really swung the advantage to the scrappy vet....err...guys who weren't born until after the Reagan Administration?
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Els Unravels Over Wentworth Criticism

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Even though there had been advance buzz that Wentworth was looking radically different, and even though the owner admitted he goofed in overruling his player-architect, and even though there was widespread media criticism of the course changes, Ernie Els lashed out at his fellow players for not keeping their opinions to themselves.  Lawrence Donegan reports:
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"Come to think of it, the 'TPC at Virginia Water' works pretty well, too."

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And just one more bit of Wentworth piling on from John Huggan:

Actually, in view of the often radical and deeply controversial work that bears the signature of three-time major champion Ernie Els, it is time for Wentworth to break out a new nickname. Long gone is Harry Colt's design, to be replaced by what in places is so pseudo-American it might as well be called 'I-95' or, on days when the sun shines, 'Route 66'. Come to think of it, the 'TPC at Virginia Water' works pretty well, too. Only the absence of a completely inappropriate fountain in the pond short of the 18th green revealed that we were not actually in Florida.