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Message: [QUOTE="Chin Diesel, post: 3985610, member: 34"] There is a theory of horses for courses. And yes, there are pros who have a large majority of their wins on certain courses with certain types of grass- winning on bermuda grass in Florida. Davis Love winning at Harbour town a bunch of times. The California coastal courses like Torrey Pines have certain characteristics that change throughout the year- look at Pebble Beach when they play the Pro Am in the spring as compared to playing the same course in June for the US Open. Spring time has wet, heavy air and the ball doesn't go anywhere. Fast foward three months and it's dry air and lots of wind. Your Pebble Beach Pro Am notes are just about useless when figuring out wind, carry, roll, etc. Knowing how to play in the kikuyu grass, especially out of the rough and around the greens, takes time. Greens are bent grass with Poa Annua which also tend to grow quickly and get hairy as the day gets longer. The leaders will be playing 10-12 hours after the greens were cut in the morning. Golf is rarely a good sport to bet an outright winner as your only play. And many on this board are better at it than me, but putting some of these high level ball strikers, who also happened to have grown up on this stuff, is a decent move for betting on top-10's or stuff like that. On the flip side a few years ago the Open Championship was played on a course Rory McIlroy basically grew up playing and people got all excited about it. He screwed the pooch big time on it and was out of contention by the end of day one. [/QUOTE]

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