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Scott Macpherson

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571 total appearances

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The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

People will have different views on that.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

I wonder if something's been lost.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

I think Peter probably wondered if something had been lost as well.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

I don't, from a design perspective...

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

And we saw a few years ago, 2011, 2012, there was a small change on the 11th green where they tried to regain a historic pin position.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

Because once you're running really above 10 pin,

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

on the stint meter, particularly with any type of breeze, there's no way to really stop a golf ball.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

So we have this sort of thing with design where you're really trying to get that about 1%, somewhere maybe between 0.5%, 1.5% around those puddable areas.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

So I know it was controversial at the time.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

I actually liked it.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

I thought getting that pin position close to Hill Bunker, which is one of the really iconic bunkers, if you know the story of Bobby Jones getting stuck in that bunker,

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

So this idea that we're speeding up greens, but we're losing pinnable area, and particularly classic pinnable area, is a touchpoint for discussion.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

And so you run, say, forward to the open in 2015 and then 2022, and you look at what the RNA trends

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

We're trying to do this whole idea of maybe defending PAR again.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

And it comes down to pin positions.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

How close can they be tucked to mounds?

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

Or on the first green, how close could it be over the Swilkin burn?

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

So we have really great data now.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

So they release all the pinnable information.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

We know in 20...