‘Inside The Ropes’ is the chance for Golf Monthly’s expert team to share its honest thoughts on the biggest subjects in the game. This week, we get our professional golf irritations off our chests
We watch a lot of golf at Golf Monthly, and our writers have been fans of the game for decades. We live and breathe the sport and love it dearly, but there are many occasions where we find ourselves slightly irritated by what we’re watching.
That’s the subject of this week’s Inside The Ropes, where I asked my colleagues for their pro golf irritations and also chimed in with a couple of my own.
So, what annoys you about pro golf? Let us know in the comments section at the bottom of this article.
Long player-caddie discussions
I’m becoming increasingly bored of conversations between caddies and players and I can’t help think professional golf would be more interesting if these consultations were banned.
Some of the players come across as almost insecure and need the validation of a caddie to hit a shot, which can lead to painful back-and-forths that sometimes take longer than a minute.
Almost everyone feels slow play is a problem, and the caddie-player relationship does nothing to improve this. My colleague Joe Ferguson believes caddies should be scrapped in the professional game and I’m starting to get on board with that admittedly ‘out there’ opinion.
Rough
The lack of rough at most tour events is my second point of annoyance.
There’s so much talk about how far the ball goes, but the widely employed solution of simply lengthening golf holes makes no sense.
If you make the rough thick and the fairways narrow, players will either scale back in order to find the short grass or persist with the big stick and take the gamble on.
If someone wins from the latter camp, then fair enough, you have to give credit where it’s due.
But at least challenge them or make them think. It’s far too easy most weeks for big hitters to whack driver 350 yards and face little to no penalty for missing the short grass.
And while I’m on the subject of length, enough of ‘par 4s’ in excess of 500 yards already – it’s ridiculous!
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