Since golfers play against the course ?

I agree, but it's hard for them to know how well even the best players in the field that week are going to play, so it's not easy to just snap your fingers and set up a course that you're certain will produce -5 to -10 scores through 4 days. There are other variables like the weather.

I'm fine with scores in the mid teens over 4 days in any tournament. It's when it gets in the 20s...and it does occasionally (John Deere Classic the past few years), I don't like that at all.

There are different types of courses. Some of the courses they play on are set up to be playable by mere mortals, and you'd expect very low scores there. A low-handicapper playing an Open course would be lucky to break 100. That's pretty punishing, and not how most courses should be set up.

Remember, they're not JUST playing against the course. Shooting -15 does no good if the next guy's shooting -18. The competition between the players is half the game.

Besides, setting every course up kind of the same means the same players will win all the time. Having different types of courses means we get to see players with different strengths win. Unless, of course, there's someone like Tiger was back 10 years ago, when he was stronger than everyone at every type of course.

There's a lot of problems that develop with this type of thinking...

The idea that length needs to be added, rough needs to be grown, greens need to roll like pool tables, bunkers need to be added/moved is asinine. For what- one week out of the year? All the work that needs to be done- not to mention the extra costs to maintain it all- to make a course "US Open-ready" has to be paid somehow. Guess who foots that bill? The everyday people that play those courses the 99.9% of the time. How is that fair to them? Par is just a number; compared to the life of golf, it's actually a relatively young concept. But who really cares if Tiger, Ernie, Keegan, or whoever wins with a score of -12, 0, or +12? The point is to take less swings than everyone else, not what the relation to par is.

Look at other sports: in basketball, some teams have rims that behave just a little differently. The home teams know this and adjust to it. Boise St. has their blue football field. Some football teams have to share their field with the baseball team... they know how to react in the areas that are covered in dirt, whereas some teams don't adjust as well. Same with baseball teams that play on different turfs... some teams that alway plays on natural grass have trouble adjusting to astro/field-turf. Different tracks in NASCAR behave differently, even if they're the same type. Should all these different and unique stadiums be torn down and rebuilt to the same specs? And whose specs would the be? That uniqueness is a wonderful thing, I think, regardless of what sport we're talking about. Why should all courses, tracks and stadiums be built the same, in some false pretense of "fairness"?

"i'm 24 years previous and purely all started playing golfing about 2 months in the past. On my 2d ever vacation to an total length golfing course, I shot a ninety 8 and characteristic hovered contained in the ninety's for the three-4 journeys on the grounds that to finish classes. also, on the community par 3 golfing course (complicated par 3 course designed by technique of Jack Nicklaus) that still has a pair par 4's, I continually shoot between E and +10." you ought to far to pass. i does no longer placed a lot in this dream.

A good question, maybe you should submit it to the PGA and see if you get a response.