Instant Poll: Your Overall Reaction To The Revamped Doral?
/Before we read the reactions top players who were beat up by the Blue Monster and will be demanding changes, I'm just curious what you the viewer of the 2014 WGC Cadillac felt was your impression of the revamped design.
I will be posting a letter later to Donald Trump, but my overall impression was to not do a thing to the architecture. The back nine setup this week seemed oddly weak by PGA Tour Rules Staff standards, with the depressing choice of today's back right hole on 15 and the excessive length of the 18th all week taking out some of the potential excitement provided for in the redesign.
It's also my impression from watching all four days that maturity will take just a little of that awkward new firmness out of the putting surfaces while also allowing the roughs to mature. That matted, clumpy look we saw will be lost in time, which means the lake banks will stop those balls just barely trickling off a green.
So my vote was Very Favorable, as I thought it was the most interesting golf watching of 2014. Yours?
