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The other replies you got are good, but miss a key component of what makes golf interesting: score separation. On a given hole, you don’t want everybody to get
by paulcole 4y ago
The other replies you got are good, but miss a key component of what makes golf interesting: score separation.
On a given hole, you don’t want everybody to get a birdie (or everybody to get a par or everybody to get a bogey, etc.). You need there to be some risk/reward that leads to some getting a birdie, some getting a par, some getting a bogey, etc. This is what adds drama and strategy as a tournament goes on. Which option will the guy in second go for? What will the leader do?
If you remove this separation and have almost everybody taking birdie/par and nobody taking bogey, then all the scores will be bunched tighter together and the end result is a tournament that’s less exciting to watch.
- bombcar 4y agoThe “do I take the safe shot that gets me there in three guaranteed, or do I try to go for the long drive and hope to hit it in two (but if I miss I’m at four for sure)” was even a part of golf on the Wii. There’s also something about a sport that becomes not a question of doing excellence but instead becomes all about not being the person to make a mistake.