Enough with the wind

[OCdude12]

Played this course, Sevillano Links, in 40+ MPH winds about a month and a half ago. Its a John Daly signature course, plays over 7800 yards from the tees we played with a 78.0 rating/140 slope. Safe to say the hardest round of golf I have ever played. One par 3 is 268 yds or thereabouts, I hit driver and didnt even get there, the wind was so hard when you took the club back it acted like a sail blowing in every direction, I don't even know how I made contact with the ball. Greens were also so fast and wind so hard, a couple times you would put your ball down and it would just start rolling away from me. Even little 10-15 yard pitches you had to account for the wind, so ridiculous. Shot a smooth 96 that day, I was real glad when that round was over.

http://www.sevillanolinks.com/

[KyGolfer1988]

Wind can be your worst enemy or your best friend. Me, personally, I love to play in any kind of condition that forces to switch my game up and play against mother nature. This is the way I look at it, if I can deal with and overcome these kind of conditions when it's bad then theoretically I can play damn good when the conditions are perfect. Granted 20-30MPH gusts are hard to compensate for but if you can and still play your game effectively then that makes you a good player in my book. Depending on your average finishing score through a round, if you can shoot even par through 18 with wind, light rain, gusts of wind, etc.. then just imagine what you can do when the temp is around 78-82 the fairways and greens are nice and crisp and the conditions couldn't get any better. Ohhh...The possibilities..

[madcityscott]

You guys who love the wind remind me of bicycle riders who seek out hills. Gluttons for punishment.

Maybe I'll appreciate the wind someday, but I agree with those who hate it. (Then again, a little breeze would be nice on some of those crazy hot Sacramento summer days...)

[KyGolfer1988]

Lance Armstrong didn't win the Tour de France 7 times in a row cycling down the interstate. Tiger didn't win 14 major champs and 71 PGA events in perfect conditions HaHa.. But regardless, some people love it and some people hate it.

[MiniMoe]

Played this course, Sevillano Links, in 40+ MPH winds about a month and a half ago. Its a John Daly signature course, plays over 7800 yards from the tees we played with a 78.0 rating/140 slope. Safe to say the hardest round of golf I have ever played. One par 3 is 268 yds or thereabouts, I hit driver and didnt even get there, the wind was so hard when you took the club back it acted like a sail blowing in every direction, I don't even know how I made contact with the ball. Greens were also so fast and wind so hard, a couple times you would put your ball down and it would just start rolling away from me. Even little 10-15 yard pitches you had to account for the wind, so ridiculous. Shot a smooth 96 that day, I was real glad when that round was over.

It's important to understand that a professional tournament, they would never play the course that long if the wind was blowing that hard. There is no way they want a tour pro to end up short on a par three with driver in his hand. T.V. is bad about telling the audience the course is 7400 yards, when in fact they are only playing it 6900 yards.

[B Keller]

That's a good point Moe. It is 7400 yards from the TIPS, meaning if every hole was played to its maximum distance it measures 7400. No course anywhere does that.

I consistently see on cold and/or windy days many tees moved up an entire tee box, let alone the front of its regular box.