Rough can be 30% to 60% of a course's total acreage, said Whitlark, the USGA agronomist.
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'" noted Davis of the USGA. "In the U.K. and Europe, they ask, 'Who won the match?
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First, because amateurs would have even more reason to defy the ban, further undermining the USGA's authority.
Winged Foot also is where former USGA President Sandy Tatum offered the defining comment for the U.S. Open.
Fortunately, the namesake three private lakes don't present too much of a water hazard on this USGA-rated 18-hole course.
But it could take the unprecedented step of breaking with USGA rules and allowing anchored putting at its events.
His father, Prescott Bush, a senator from Connecticut, also was a USGA president.
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The USGA loves comments like that, because it sees the challenge of an Open as much more than just physical.
Sports Illustrated reported Wednesday it was David Eger, a rules expert who has worked for the USGA and the PGA Tour.
In recent months, the USGA has declared long-term environmental sustainability, particularly water usage, to be one of its top policy issues.
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They ended up letting him play, citing USGA rule 33-7, which allows for some discretion when it comes to disqualifying players.
"The problem is that not even 5% of players actually know this, " said Steven Edmondson, the USGA's managing director for handicapping and course rating.
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As the USGA's executive director Mike Davis puts it, balls will roll, and Olympic's numerous bunkers are likely to see a lot of traffic.
Ridley, a former U.S. Amateur champion and former USGA president, didn't provide details of the initial review process and hasn't spoken to the media since.
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Stimpmeters were controversial when the USGA began selling them in 1978.
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In response to the ban, the U.S. PGA Tour said it acknowledged the decision and thanked the USGA for hearing its voice during the long discussions.
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The USGA and RA felt this meant that landing in the rough was no longer enough of a penalty for shots that strayed from the fairway.
But luckily for fans looking forward to a tense finish on the weekend, Davis and the USGA have set up the final few holes for some excitement.
Eger was director of tournament administration at the PGA Tour for 10 years until joining the USGA as senior director of rules and competition from 1992 to 1995.
If push came to shove and the USGA did someday call for reduced-distance balls, the manufacturers would doubtless comply, although some might also continue to offer longer-flying models.
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Should the USGA finalize the ban, the Tour might go along, perhaps even moving up compliance to the start of next season to put the distraction behind it.
The USGA handicap system allows players to pick up, too.
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The USGA wouldn't oppose a birdie in similar circumstances Sunday.
The USGA appears nowhere near proposing a ball rollback, especially after the unexpectedly fierce opposition it encountered to its proposed ban on anchored putting, which has yet to be decided.
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Add to that all the usual ingredients of a USGA-prepared course - tight fairways, thick rough and small, quick greens - and you have the ultimate test in professional golf.
During a visit last week to the USGA's research labs here, I was allowed to briefly fondle Stimpson's original creation, a scooped out wooden bar shorter than the modern versions.
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"Our regulations provide that we will follow the rules as promulgated by the USGA provided, however, we retain the right not to in certain instances if we see fit, " he added.
Steven Quintavalla, a longtime senior research engineer at the USGA labs, was looking for better ways to quantify how balls struck with drivers and other long clubs bounce and roll out on fairways.
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Finchem hates the divisiveness and distraction the proposal has stirred up, and reportedly prevailed on the Tour's player policy board, which met Monday, to write a letter to the USGA expressing the Tour's opposition.
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