Can you imagine how much golfers would hate it if they got a 10-stroke lead and then with 9 holes left they were brought back to a 1-shot lead due to a safety golf cart or something. The fair police would freak out!

F1 really demonstrates this to the masses due to the increase in car size. Google F1 car size 2005 vs today and you will be blown away by the increase. But overall auto racing as a whole (local to national) shares many parallels with golf in regards to how technology has been allowed to overcome the "playing field". They also share the same youth movement obsession along with the chasing of corporate dollars. I feel the chase of corporate dollars is where NASCAR really lost its way and lost many of the traditional fans. They stopped going to tracks like North Wilkesboro, Rockingham and Hickory in favor of newer, fancier and more modern facilities like Kansas Speedway and others. The quality of the racing went significantly downhill, the ticket prices went way up but they did sell more skyboxes. In the end, Americans attention spans are only so long and before they knew it those corporate customers were onto the next thing. This left these modern tracks with empty stands and no traditional fans willing to spend that type of money for watered down, copy and paste racetracks. In the end NASCAR was forced to return to the old school venues and they are now back on better footing. Sad to see golf unable to learn from those mistakes and just drive the semi down the same level B road. Sorry, as a former racecar driver, the parallel between the sports really hits home and drives me mad.

They sent me off solo last year. It’s magical.

Having just played Old Sandwich, a Shackelford match play between it and trails would be fascinating.

The Monza racetrack also shares a park with the Monza Golf Club that has hosted the Italian open a few times!

Can you imagine how much golfers would hate it if they got a 10-stroke lead and then with 9 holes left they were brought back to a 1-shot lead due to a safety golf cart or something. The fair police would freak out!

When I saw the headline, I could only think of TCC Brookline - and it’s actual race track 1/18

To me the best F1/historic golf equivalent is Monaco and St Andrews. Both are historic/grandest stages for their respective sports and the technology of their respective sports has killed them. St. Andrews is now a pitch and putt for the tour pros unless the wind is howling. Monaco is a "parade" because the cars have gotten too big. Neither location has any room to expand and without governing body regulation both could lose their spots in the not too distant future.

I think given the nature of golf shots, since players land their ball within certain diameters (some larger some smaller depending on the skill level of the player) there will be a range of lucky and unlucky bounces/rolls/and lies. I think there should be a differentiation between "a lucky or unlucky shot", and considering if the course as a whole is fair or not. This is a relative scale based on the skill and desire of the player, but an unfair course could be a course that is too difficult for the skill level of the player. The course is asking for shots that the player just doesn't have. On the flip side, if a highly skilled player would play a easy course, this also isn't really fair. I think maybe one-dimensional courses could skew towards not being fair since it would mostly be asking for the same types of shots all round.

Agreed. Whenever I play with someone who complains about a "bad bounce" on what they think was a good shot, I challenge them that the next time they get a lucky break — like a favorable bounce off a tree from a wayward drive or a thinned approach shot that somehow runs out onto the green — they should throw the ball into a worse spot to even things out. Funny enough, they never seem to do that.