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Royal Birkdale
In recent years it has become a common obsession among developers that ‘championship golf courses’ need to be as long as possible for them to be classed as great. But here, Tim Lobb, of course designers Thomson Perrett & Lobb, reveals how making a course longer doesn’t always make it better.
W
hile it is true that professional golfers and elite amateurs
are now hitting the ball further than ever before, it has become an obsession among developers to make golf courses longer and longer. The facts are that the longest hitter on the European Tour now averages 312.6 yards, compared to 295.8 yards ten years ago. The distance the modern golf ball flies is the single most important factor in this increase, but the athleticism of today’s tour pros, plus corresponding developments in club technology, have all combined to effectively make golf courses shorter and, for some former tour venues, obsolete. For this year’s Open Championship, Royal Birkdale lengthened 16 of its holes, increasing the yardage to 7,173 yards - in part, an effort to tame the league of long hitters.
While the old, traditional championship courses are upping their yardages,
developers of new courses now have the perception that, in order to make their courses great, they have to make them long. But that can cause more negatives than positives when you’re hoping to get people back to your course on a regular basis. If a developer tells me they
want their course to be 7,400 yards in length so they can call it a ‘championship course’, I ask them how serious they are about getting a top tournament played on it. Out of all the developments that claim to be ‘championship courses’, I’d say approximately just ten percent of them will actually ever host a tour event. The fact is, many developers don’t really understand what it involves. We always tell developers that they won’t make their money from the back tees - elite golfers playing off the championship tees are usually playing for free or in a competition. In reality, the back tees might only be used twice a year. The majority of courses make their money
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LONGER IS NOT ALWAYS BETTER!
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