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On the contrary, it isnвЂ™t going far enough, certainly not with enough regularity and control.ДЇor those who are worried about defending par, I have some advice: watch an average group play an average hole and youвЂ™ll see par stands up pretty well. For most golfers, the ball is not going too far. Playing the back tees in the hopes of playing it like the pros do would be a futile if not absurd (and painfully slow) undertaking. (During the 2012 GC Am Tour National Championship staged in September, the Championship flight averaged 83.86 on the Stadium, while the Snead averaged 113.36.) Evidence for that can be found among the amateurs themselves: The low-index Championship flight averaged 88.7 while the high-index (20+) Snead flight averaged 116.6. And when it comes to testing your nerves, there probably arenвЂ™t many courses that come close to this one in spreading the field. But as any architect can tell you, the difference between average golfers and plus-handicap golfers is greater than ever. Mind you, itвЂ™s likely that amateurs opting for such an event represent more competitively minded golfers than found on an average tee sheet on any given course. (Each flight played one round on the Stadium and one on Dye's Valley.) The chart below compares hole-by-hole average scoring during the PGA TourвЂ™s Players Championship 2003-2017 versus the results of the 2018 Golf Channel Am Tour's TPC Sawgrass Open, which was staged in January over two days and open to tour members of all handicap levels.

Two things stand out immediately: the scoring and which holes are harder for which class of players. We can glean a statistical sense of that by comparing scoring data of pros and amateurs in tournament competition at the famed Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass. I always laugh when I hear about some mid- or even low-handicapper who wants to 'play the whole course, all the way back, like the Tour pros do.' ItвЂ™s one of the biggest conceits in golf, because your average golfer, no matter how much theyвЂ™ve watched the PGA Tour on television or followed the majors, has no real idea how good those guys are: how far they really hit it, how consistently, and with what powers of recovery.

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