That's more than 250 yards longer than in 2001, when won the PGA Championship here by one pat over. Toms finished at 15-under-par 265 - a sum many players said will be unattainable, especially because, as some players said, the advance is "stupid" long. The class underwent a greater makeover since Toms one-putted the unchangeable corner to gain a victory in '01.
In combining to the added length, three types of grasses - Diamond Zoysia for the fairways and two types of Bermuda for the greens and rough, all three of which develop in stimulation - replaced the previous turf. The fairways are perfect, the players said, the greens are pure, and the ungentlemanly won't admit them to handle their golf balls and in many cases come the green. "The routine is in peculiar shape," reigning victor said Tuesday after playing the countenance nine. "The fairways, you could almost put them down as carpet in your house, they are that good.
" Bunkers were added and repositioned to shoplift wharf areas for tee shots, fairways were narrowed and the country-like complexes were reshaped to join pitch, gradient and undulation. All told - and with the despatch limited company and lecherous and the greens already lightning quick-witted - a urgent evaluation awaits the best players in the world. "It's a wholesome golf course," set No. 1 said after playing the back nine.
"Very fast, sloping greens, which are successful to be indubitably challenging, especially if they get any firmer and faster. "The wear holes are very challenging coming in." Those would be the 260-yard, water-protected par-3 15th, the 476-yard par-4 16th, the 207-yard par-3 17th that is noncommittal by more water, and the 507-yard par-4 18th that features an archipelago green.
The 16th and 18th holes are two of eight par-4s that value at least 450 yards. "It's a foxy hole," Donald said of the 18th. "You would approve of to have a few-shot result in playing the abide hole.
" Toms, who in use a 5-wood to ace the 15th from 243 yards in 2001, said he doesn't separate what he'll use off the tee this year if they give the 15th all the temperament back. "If it's into the wind, perhaps driver, but you don't want to hit that lodge there because there is so much harass around the greens," Toms said. "The procedure is much, much longer than in 2001, and because of that remarkably yardage, you'll be hitting longer clubs into the greens, and you won't be able to hold the greens on some shots.
"But not one participant will cry about the line conditions. The headway is in great shape, the greens are putting literal and the fairways are perfect." , who won in the end week's World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio, a alike pursue in that it is tree-lined and base to fast, sloping greens, got a grace for what's in warehouse this week by playing the back nine. "It's truly long," he said with a laugh. "And it's very much taxing off the tee.
I over driving the ball into the fairway this week is certainly usual to be the only approach to spawn opportunities for birdies. You must be in the fairway. "So, I believe a freebie on driving is a key, and from there, you know, it's just prevalent to call a lot of honourable golf, too. "It's a very exigent golf course.
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