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.

Have heard the same statement re: Lido after playing earlier this summer. I just cant imagine living life wanting no randomness and joy.

If you were starting a franchise tomorrow, what Cub player would you take and why is it PCA?