Andy Johnson
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There are tons of bunkers at Aronamink.
Although there are a lot of them, I don't think they're that severe and that penalizing in nature.
This is a member's course the vast majority of the time.
I don't think you're going to see those...
Super severe, hard to advance it out.
You know, there will be a lot of thick rough.
You're not going to see a lot of short grass shots.
So it's going to be kind of a typical PGA championship around the greens.
But really, the stars of the show, a show at Arana Mink is the greens.
They are heavily tilted as you would expect from a 1926 golf course, a lot of slope in them as they used to be played at much slower speeds.
The thing that you, that really makes a Ron and make screen stand out are these kind of pronounced spines that Ross built in a lot of greens.
And what they do is divide the green into really small pockets and sections.
It's going to give Carrie Hague a lot of flexibility on where he puts the
pins and and how we can protect really scoring and in certain areas by you can really tuck away pins into tough spots.
And these ridges are built up.
So one of the things when you're putting or you're chipping across them, you're having to deal with the up and then over kind of putts where you're having to go uphill and then on the backside is downhill to the slope.
These are just hard putts to gauge.
Obviously, huge reward if you can hit it into the right pocket because then you get a lot of makeable shots and they're kind of like small bowls with these ridges.
But if you miss outside the pocket, it makes it really hard to putt, not just because of that ridge, but also that pronounced slope.
There's a lot of back-to-front sloping greens.