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Old 06-21-2004, 09:20 AM
TheRake TheRake is offline
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Default Is USGA unfair with setup of Open courses?

Tiger Woods thinks so

I tend to agree with Tiger on this one. The USGA for some reason has this belief that the winning score should be even par. In order to keep the best players in the world in check they "trick" up the course until it is almost unplayable. Here are some numbers from yesterday.

Best Score: Even Par 70 (Robert Allenby)
Worst Score: 19 over par 89 (Billy Mayfair)
Average Score: 10 over par 80
Winners Score: 1 over par 71 (Retief Goosen)

Allenby shot even par and moved up several places on the leader board. I shutter to think how bad it could have been if the weather had been worse.

TheRake
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