Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Jun 12, 2017 21:42:12 GMT
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Elkington said the big hitters who can keep their ball on the fairways will have a huge advantage, but no one will be exempt if the wind picks up.
“If you hit it long here, you will have such an advantage because everything is blind,” Elkington said. “You will get on the tee, you’re looking out, you will see all the grass, and you will see this strip of cut grass, which is the fairway, and these guys have got to send it over these hills with the wind and allow for it. Now, if that wind changes, these guys, it’s going to be carnage because they won’t know where to aim. Right now its consistent out of the southwest.”
The 54-year-old said the golfers who end up in the rough are in a world of trouble.
“You can’t move it. I’m telling you, you can’t move it the length of your shoe,” Elkington said of the longer grass. “I’m not saying oh he’s taking the wedge out and advance a hundred yards down the fairway and then play it, I’m telling you can’t hit it a yard, one yard out of the rough once he gets in there.”
Elkington said the big hitters who can keep their ball on the fairways will have a huge advantage, but no one will be exempt if the wind picks up.
“If you hit it long here, you will have such an advantage because everything is blind,” Elkington said. “You will get on the tee, you’re looking out, you will see all the grass, and you will see this strip of cut grass, which is the fairway, and these guys have got to send it over these hills with the wind and allow for it. Now, if that wind changes, these guys, it’s going to be carnage because they won’t know where to aim. Right now its consistent out of the southwest.”
The 54-year-old said the golfers who end up in the rough are in a world of trouble.
“You can’t move it. I’m telling you, you can’t move it the length of your shoe,” Elkington said of the longer grass. “I’m not saying oh he’s taking the wedge out and advance a hundred yards down the fairway and then play it, I’m telling you can’t hit it a yard, one yard out of the rough once he gets in there.”