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[QUOTE="upperdeck, post: 5099437, member: 474"]
Even locally when we play some of the better courses when they want to trick up the green and make the pins tougher its night and day how much harder it is.

The goal of the open is to reward great shots and have players execute them.   if the landing area to a pin is small either make the shot or don't try it.

Many of these players are hitting the same shots they try on normal weeks where you miss the shot by 10 ft and it just means you have a 25 ft putt not a 10ft one.  Now the result is a 75ft chip instead.   they don't want to play smarter.

bryson and rory with the length advantage on good days get more reward and yesterday  bryson had 3-4 bad drives late but got great lies and then hit good second shots. That doesnt always happen. 
Rory played well but got really hard recovery shots on his misses.

Guys are still making birdies they just make more bogeys on this course.

This course has fairways twice as wide as what most of us play on so the penalty of the bad lies and the tougher approaches are the offset to that.
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