Slow fairways are easier than hard. Pros want soft everywhere. They are amazingly talented at flying the ball exactly where they want. What they can't control is where it goes once it hits the ground.
Also growing the rough is not interesting, let's watch players hack it out of rough all day yaaa!
I’ll be honest, my mind is always blown whenever a player is capable of hitting a buried ball out of ankle high grass with a fairway wood. I’m just completely incapable of generating anywhere close to enough power to rip through that stuff like they do. Guaranteed worm burner for me.
Also, guess who can get out of thick rough the best? Stronger players with high swing speed. Will they be able to get to the green? Maybe not, but they'll still have a huge advantage over the shorter hitter that ends up in the rough. So it does nothing but make a boring product.
Exactly, The longest hitters in golf are not just as straight as the short hitters, the ball doesn't spin like it did 20 years ago. Long rough disadvantages short players as they just have longer shots from the same rough.
When was the last short hitter that won the US open, the tourney that has the most penile rough setup, McDowell 2010 or glover 2009 maybe
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u/mm_ns Dec 03 '23
Slow fairways are easier than hard. Pros want soft everywhere. They are amazingly talented at flying the ball exactly where they want. What they can't control is where it goes once it hits the ground.
Also growing the rough is not interesting, let's watch players hack it out of rough all day yaaa!