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This move is great but it makes me wonder as to the green conditions at the other courses we are slated to play. Needless-to-say, I will not be the only one who will be disappointed if after hours of travel and hundreds and hundreds of dollars, we are met with burned-out greens.

I echo your sentiments. I played one course last year that I felt was in terrible condition. I would hate to think that they will all have burned-out greens this year. If they can't keep enough water on the greens, I wonder what condition the fairways will be in.

There are currently alot of courses that have had greens issues this summer. It has been incredibly hot and it is showing it's affects. I was at Barefoot last weekend and was told that Fazio (which I am playing in the tournament) has some problems but Norman is worse with at least two temporary greens in place. I played the Love and Dye courses and they were both alright but was told they were the best of Barefoot. Unfortunately the superintendents can't change the weather and are playing the hand they have been dealt. It is the courses that have bent grass greens instead of the newer hybrids that are having the most problems.

Can't believe the tone of the first two comments. The course superintendants and the directors of golf at the courses with the heat-affected greens have to be as frustrated as the golfers who are playing the greens. There is absolutely nothing that supts. can do about the weather, especially extreme heat. Too much water on the greens can result in a whole host of other problems when there is also extreme heat. In my 50-plus years of playing this game I have found the secret to putting on lousy and perfect green: put a good stroke on it and it will go in, put a crappy stroke on it and it won't.

I wonder if they are going to change the course then for the fourth day since I was scheduled to play TPC the fourth day. I agree with you Larry. The tournament is about getting together with different golfers and having a good time. Like the old commercial went don't mess with mother nature. There is only so much they can do and to place over 3,000 golfers for four days is hard enough.

Larry,

I echo your comments. As I said yesterday, the supt's can't change the weather. Everybody loves putting on bentgrass greens but it just doesn't hold up to the heat, especially as hot as it has been this year. I have played alot up there this summer and while alot of courses are struggling with keeping their greens playable, the bermuda fairways are much more resistant to the heat. I haven't seen too much issue in that regard especially on the nicer courses that have better maintenence budgets.

Courses in Myrtle Beach have taken a beaten from the hot humid weather. The greens keepers at most of the courses have done a great job in keeping the greens in playable condition. Bent grass being the exception. It just can't take the continuos heat and humidity, so except the conditions as a challenge. After all everyone in your flight has to play the same course.