Curtis Strange gets issues with the PGA decision: ‘They were wrong’

Thursday at PGA championship, muddy balls – The phenomenon in which the soft course conditions make the mud on the side of the golf ball, which can affect its flight when it was hit – developed on the central scene.

The main players As Xander Schauffle and Scottie Schefflerwho played in the early wave on Thursday, were upset by those who described as unjust break Because of the mud balls.

In the 16th hole, Scheffler hit a wrong approach that led to a double noise. He explained after his round that a mud ball was the cause, and he thinks that the course conditions deserved a decision to play favorite lies on Thursday – a decision that would allow players to raise, clean and place balls on the street without penalty.

“I understand what it would be like a golf purist, Oh, Lion as it stands,” Scheffler said. “But I don’t think they understand how it is how to literally work your whole life to learn how to hit a golf ball and control it and hit shots and control distance, and all of a sudden, due to a decision that has been completely removed from us by accident. In golf, there is enough fortune to be not played in all. When I look at Golf, I wish you, and make it right, and not to do it right, and make it right, and not, seeking to be right, and not to be right, and it will not be the right of golf.

Schauffle was also a victim of a bad break from a mud ball to 16.

“Just just to come to hit the good shots and pay them that way. It’s a kind of stupid,” he said. “I’m not the only boy. I’m just in front of the camera. I wouldn’t want to go to the closet room because I’m sure many boys aren’t super happy with the type of conditions there. I feel like the grass is so good, there is no real advantage to clean your ball on the road. The course is completely removed.

Perhaps by anticipating possible critics, America’s PGA issued a statement Wednesday evening defending the decision to play the ball down.

“We do not plan to play favorite lies,” the statement said. “The surfaces of the game are extraordinary and are drying for hours. We are mowing the streets this evening. We are looking forward to an exciting round of opening in the 107th championship.”

While the opening day was dressed, however, it was clear that the mud balls were becoming more issues. Eventually, transmitters ESPN Curtis Strange and Scott Van Pelt discussed the situation.

“Padraig Harrington mentioned, leading to this day, this is the wetst golf course he had ever seen,” Van Pelt said. “This is a man in his 50s who naturally plays in Europe, so he has seen wet golf courses.”

Van Pelt compared the conditions in Quail Hollow with a sponge that plunged a spill but was not taken out.

“It was THAT Wet, and yes, the sun is out and yes, this golf course does not drain well, and yes, we understand the purists, Curtis, who say we do not want a hand in a golf ball, play it as it stands, “continued Van Pelt.” But how do you react to the idea that you really don’t have to be punished if you hit it in the square in the fairway and has a big old ball stroke in the ball? “

“Excellent argument, right?” Replied the odd one.

“I think so,” Van Pelt said. “I think it’s convincing.”

“From a player’s point of view, it’s completely deteriorating when you lose control of the golf ball in the air,” Strange said. “From the PGA point of view, I think from the PGA of America, I think they thought there was plenty of grass on these thick, quite thick, rye roads, that they would not get mud.

“They were wrong, obviously, and I think they made a mistake. I think for a day, it’s best to put it in your hand and put it in a herd of grass and clean the ball.”

“It’s a decision for today, it’s a conversation that could probably have moved forward if they think it’s necessary,” Van Pelt said.

“It’s a conversation for the rich, but it’s also a conversation to have because it can cost someone a tour,” Strange replied.

America’s PGA has not yet made any additional statement about the course conditions, and the ball is set to play for the remaining rounds – something Schauffe is careful.

“The mud balls will deteriorate,” he said. “They will get worse as the shows dry out. They will get into that perfect area of ​​the cake where it is a kind of mud under it and then get mud along the way. I mean, you just don’t know, maybe you hit it a little less down from the crack, but then unfortunately, the problem with the low -hitting is not.

“It’S’S A LITTLE A CAPPENDING.”