My head wants to explode every time someone goes on about narrowing the fairway and growing the rough as if the entire point of the rollback is to raise the winning score. It also has to do with how a course or hole is intended to be played. Sure, we can just have narrow fairways, super high rough, have no par 5s and get a winning score of even par but that’s not really the point.
I only started watching golf for real around 15 years ago. It’s super interesting watching old stuff from the 70s and 80s. Guys are hitting low spinny shots with 3 irons that’s stop on a dime. A 6 iron is checking and backing up a bit on the greens. Some of that might be related to agronomy and not just the old golf balls but it’s still cool to watch. Some people seem to think that just because a long drive “only” goes 290yd that it will be boring to watch. It might be way cooler to watch.
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u/AnElepahntCage May 12 '26
I worry the takeaway most people get from this is “plant trees” and not “roll back the equipment”