Golf can be so much more entertaining than this. The 14th was better than most, but if it got past one dimension it certainly didn't reach a third. Its par-fives were a long, soggy path of eagleless meaninglessness, those who hit a great drive perhaps enjoying the luxury of laying up closer to the green than those who didn't. It asked players first of all to do that, to be smart when they failed to, and to aim for the fat of the green. Oak Hill didn't encourage anything spectacular except for hitting the ball high and straight, which takes extraordinary skill but is blandly repetitive.
There is no more exciting shot in golf than the escape shot, yet it had been taken off the table by the lottery of the lie. He tried an escape shot when there wasn't one.
#Pga championship one and done professional#
What I'll remember is that when you hit the ball in the rough, you had to take your medicine, and when Thomas Pieters didn't, people seemed to enjoy seeing a professional golfer hit the ball a few yards. Players hit about 275 shots when they win a major and for any of them to stick requires something more than winning the tournament.īut I don't know how many shots I'll remember tomorrow, let alone in years to come. Tiger Woods at Augusta in 2019, likewise. When I think back to Rory McIlroy's win at Hoylake, there aren't many that spring to mind.
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