Scott Macpherson

We've talked about club and ball, but there's a whole other level of sort of agronomy taking place as well.

So what happened with, you know, in the 1880s, 1890s, mowers became important, great.

Well, now we can expand these putting areas, these green types areas.

And I remember talking with Peter Thompson in Melbourne, and he would say, Scott, do you know why we had practice rounds?

I think I knew, but why Peter?

And he would say, well, it was to learn the speed of the greens.

So here we are in the 50s and 60s where, you know, the stint meter was not really invented.

It wasn't important.

And, you know, he went out and they all went out to try and figure out that the fifth green was slightly slower than the seventh.

which was faster than the 12th, which was slower than the 13th or whatever, made notes.

You know, they didn't care.

Peter said he didn't care about the colour of the grass, didn't care about the speed of the green.

Just as long as it was smooth, that was the art of putting.

So now it's changed again, right?

Yeah.

You know, every green, you know, you see the RNA in all the tournaments and they're like, well, today the stimp is 10.8 or 12.2 or...

And the height of cut is... Whatever it might be, yeah.

So hang on, this is a change.

This was never important before, but it is now.

Is it right or is it wrong?