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Oakmont, Pa.-In the highest list of 100 excellent pretentious terms in the old game, bifurim It should be in the first five, if not above. Some visible golf people – Tiger WoodsFor example – have stated their opposition to “bifurcation” in Golf. In this funny use of the word, it means a set of rules for elite goods, and another for the rest of us. “Let me tell you something,” Fred PerpallThe USA president, said Friday as he stayed in the shadows of the Oakmont Country Club club. “This game IS Bifurcated. “

If this 10th opens us here, in this wonderful Golf torture roomhas proven anything, this is: They don’t play the game we play!

(Please justify screaming but this is becoming personal.)

And since they do not play the game we play, and since the game conditions they require to make 280 a significant four -round score are made so Absurd, there is only one solution: a golf ball for them several times a year. This is what Fred before he wanted.

“That was our original goal,” he said. “A ball to the male elite professional. But the PGA of America and PGA Tour knocked it.”

The new ball, the 10 percent ball, was a compromise.

I would say, a poor man.

In 2033, when the US Open returns to Oakmont, most demanding from all US open courses, will only be longer, with more severe and faster greens, all in the name of maintaining money as a significant result. Which is a worthy purpose. Golf is simply choosing a weak way to get there. Rounds here are closer six hours than five. Artistic genius has been very missing.

I wish the ball manufacturers would not worry so much about presenting a special ball for special occasions. We ordinary players will lose balls and buy shiny new ones at the same rate. If a maximum ball in 320 yard for Rory Mcilroy and Bryson Dechambeau and players that will eventually replace them, this would improve golf in any possible way, including the restoration of 540-Oborre Par-5 and long par-3 to 240 yards, not 300.

Jason Day said the next day that 18-Handicap garden-dependence Golf would shoot 150 in Oakmont, playing the course he and his elite brothers are playing. He was not funny. The only addition I would add to this is this: If we could finish at all.

For us, the chances of throwing any stroke from the rough green over the green are low. The chance to need only two strokes in any of these past and unfair past greens is even lower. Both Par-5 would be Par-6s, or PAR-7, for the vast majority of us. Two par-3 long are short, ne-mack-5 par-4s. A half dozen of the Par-4s are par-5s. First for us would be 80. Indeed, a higher way than that, because it is based on the reception of the need for only two strokes for green. No 18-Handicapper will get around Oakmont with less than 45 strokes, everything in the hole. No.

PGA Tour has become a television show. If the tour wants to continue to play with the hot ball in the usual events, it really doesn’t matter. Other trips, including liv, the same. Ryder cup, the same.

But men’s diplomas are often played, and are best played, in the most preserved courses in the world. Their antiquity and history are a large part of the attraction of these events. Augusta National. Pebble beach. The old course. Royal Portrush, the British Open site next month. Oakmont, for sure. A course of 7,000 yards, with more subtle demands, would only make golf more popular. I no longer hear any driving and ahhing over the monster discs, at least not as once when Tiger was in his 20s. This because all IS super-human. It is not special. The big champion golf is smaller for him.

It is easy to see officials in Augusta National (Masters House), USA (US Open Custodians) and R&A (British Open) taking after such a ball. Maybe even PGA Tour will, for the player championship. If America’s PGA officials, in defense of the organization’s membership, do not want to get after such a ball, I can understand that. But that would hurt their Marque event.

“I see this as an extra,” said Friday. “We wrap this new ball. We appreciate its effect, we go from there.”

I’m not holding a lot of hope for US Open 2033 in Oakmont. I am more hopeful that 2042 is open here, and Oakmont Open 2049, can be played in a shorter course, with faster games that do not require so much water and seed and fertilizer and green speed to make 280 a meaningful Sunday result.

“Governance is difficult,” said another day, sitting next to Mike Whan at a USGA press conference. “No one likes to go governed, while we have to imagine a world without governance. These issues about distances, these issues about equipment arrangement, they are also issues about the sustainability of our sport. The biggest golf while they mean more costs and rounds. And this literally excludes more people.”

When US Open is in Oakmont and other courses in its class, when an Open is in portrait or turnberry or muirfield, when masters are (for custom!) In Augusta, when a PGA championship is in Olympic (2028), the combination of course and event has the capacity to present millions of people in this great game. The player championship in the stadium course, the same. But not when the rounds are endless. Not when we cannot connect, at all, with the distances that the good are hitting it and the conditions in which they are playing.

Scrape and I talked for a long time, and then he got into clubFor a meeting with Jack Nicklaus and Johnny Miller. I’m not getting one thing away from what Brooks Koepka and Sam Burns and Adam Scott are trying to do this weekend. But if you look at what Nicklaus did here in the US Open of 1962, and what Miller did here in ’73 Open, with that bent ball and those small driver heads, the living man is beautiful. Golf is supposed to be beautiful. These bigger and best men’s golf events, whether three or four or five of them, emerge from a dreamy. When we can connect with what they are doing, golf is better. A ball for the major is not “bifurcation”, whatever it is. Actually actually the opposite.