rbarthle17
One-length advocate
I don't disagree with any of this. The best part of it is this...Jack CAN do this very thing right now. He can build shorter courses and/or say "We won't build anything over 6400 yards". Instead, he is continuing to build them at the longest of levels and adding to the clutter of more crowded courses that he openly says cannot survive long term
This might be a dumb question, but are we at a place where a course that won't cater to the bomb and gouge crowd will be a dead end too? Forget the pros, lets focus on the rest of us. There seems to be a real stigma when it comes to course length. How many times here do we talk about people we see playing way too far back for their ability. How many people here on THP do we see feel the need to qualify a good score with "but I only played at XXXX yards". The answer is a lot. And this is a place full of smart golf enthusiasts. So if we can be affected by it, you damn sure can bet the random ego-driven young adult hacker will feel the same.
So if we start seeing a slew of shorter courses, to me the best plan is to make them strategic. Tight fairways or choke points and bunkers at normal driving distances. Force people to have to not robotically pull driver at the tee box every hole. You could make a fantastic golfing experience without having to go to 7000 yards. But... how popular would that be in the long haul when so much of what we see in the golf advertising business is "longer, longer, longer"?