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Harry Higgs will go on the weekend in a tie for the lead.
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Pro Tour are not agronomists, but they think a lot about grass and greens. Consider this receipt connected to the ground from Harry Higgs.
It was Friday afternoon, and Higgs was fresh from a second round 66 that put it in a tie for the superiority in Oneflight Myrtle Beach Classic IN Dunes and beach clubwhere the placement surfaces had given to the players fit.
Higgs was pretty sure he knew why.
“It was really difficult in the end because there is no ton of grass,” he said. “That doesn’t mean – they’re in perfect condition. But they are almost, you know, Bermuda becomes a little without friction, and they are fast. With the spirit of wind, it moves even more.”
That makes sense. Fast greens. Breezy day. A recipe for three pins. And not unusual.
But Higgs said there was another challenge, a complication he described as “wild”.
In many strokes, he said, grain And the slope was working in opposite directions, “so it will go a little and then run.”
Those opposing forces – the grains that went in a way, the other slope – were, Higgs said, “Very rare.”
This is an interesting, um, granular, taken.
But is the science behind it? Is it true that grains and slope usually work in the same direction?
Darren Davis, supervisor at Olde Florida Golf Club, in Naples, Fla., Would beg to change.
“The grains and the scale are widespread on most layout surfaces,” Davis says. “But they are independent of one another.”
That means, just because a green is steeping a way does not mean that the grain will be inclined to bend in the same direction. There is no connection between the two.
Higgs was right in one respect, however. Grains and scale can affect both shocks. But, Davis says, players tend to overestimate the influence of the former.
“Often when you set up uphill, players think the wheat is making a blow slower,” Davis says. “Or when placing ready players may assume that wheat is making a ball faster. Most often reality is just the slope that increases or reduces speed.”
This is a good advice for the daily player, who can waste time trying to read grain.
But Higgs probably don’t need to worry with her. However he is reading green this week, the method seems to be working well.
