Writing
Notes on measuring golf courses
Longer pieces are published under my own name rather than here. They are free, there is no schedule, and a new one appears when there is something worth saying.
Essay
Golf Measures Everything Except the Golf Course
Golf courses change gradually enough that nobody notices, and the system that describes them is a prediction made on foot once a decade rather than a reading of the scores that followed. Horse racing, baseball, cricket, tennis and track and field all measure the surface their sport is played on. This is an argument that golf should too — and what it costs clubs that it doesn't.
Read the essaySomewhere in your clubhouse there is a board with a course record on it. A name, a number, a year.
Nobody knows what the wind was doing that day.
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