Feherty On Medinah: Not Great, But Not Belfry Bad

And the hits keep coming from Wednesday's Golf Channel/NBC conference call, David Feherty:

DAVID FEHERTY:  You know, we have covered PGA Championships there, and Medinah is a long slog of a golf course, between some enormous trees, and has a couple of very similar par 3s over the water.  It's going to favor, I would say, you know, the longer hitters, that's for sure.  And you know, it's got a great finish.  We remember Sergio, I think in '99, 16, chopping it out from behind the trees on the right.  Then a couple of springbok leaps up there and then the par 3, the stare back at Tiger; a great finishing hole.

You know, it's a good golf course.  I don't think personally, you know, that it's great, but if you look at the venues that the Ryder Cup has had, at The Belfry, for instance, which was a horrible golf course to start off with, improved very slightly; it was never a great golf course, but it was a tremendous venue.  I think the crowds in Chicago will turn that golf course into something special.