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.