Trevino: "Why isn't the USGA saying the courses can't be more than 7,000 yards long?"
/Kathy Bissell talks to a former winner at Oak Hill and Lee Trevino is in fine spirits predicting a winner, analyzing Phil Mickelson's backswing with Butch Harmon, and mostly, taking on the USGA.
"The problem is our designers are making golf clubs for professionals, and I don't think that they are making golf courses, they are not developing golf courses for people," he insisted. "They have got this campaign going, 'While We're Young.' What the hell does that mean? If the course is 8,000 yards long, has 400 bunkers on it, the greens are 8,000 square feet, elephants buried in them, while we're young? Are you kidding me?"
He wonders why the USGA doesn't regulate the length of golf courses if they want to do something to improve the pace of play.
"Why isn't the USGA saying the courses can't be more than 7,000 yards long?" he wondered. "They govern everything else."
He goes on to note that even with modern equipment the average handicap has remained the same.