Johnny Gets USGA Green Light To Mention The Grain This Week

Mike Davis on the Merion greens and Johnny Miller, who talks about grain on greens reduced to dirt. But the USGA Executive Director says NBC's lead analyst has room to speak about grain this week. And knowing Johnny, he will!

And I think one of the things that's neat, Johnny Miller is going to have fun this week, because there's grain in these greens.  If you get downgrain on these things, they really go.  And if you're putting up to it, it's really slow.  I think when he does mention that on television, he's going to be right this week, that there's grain.  And I think that's neat.

This was also interesting consider that Merion's greens are not of the USGA spec variety, but instead, native soil greens with amendments.

And the putting greens, these are like modern putting greens in the sense that the drainage work they've done is just marvelous.  They drain as well as any putting greens I've seen.  The course itself drains beautifully.  There's a lot of surface drainage to this golf that Hugh Wilson just laid this course out on the land, like I mentioned, and there's been a lot of drainage put in over the years by Matt and his staff.  They're as equipped as possibly they could get for that rain event.