Golf has something very unique here and it needs to return to those storied venues. . . Bill Melhorn once said that length never made a golf course. Oh, we've reached it, we've passed it, and it's way too late. People are just building courses longer and longer. And it's a disaster.
People look at a course based on the back tee yardage and that's just meaningless.
A well-designed golf course fits the property and it may be 6,500 yards and be phenomenal. It's really basically meaningless. If you take the top 10 courses in the world and average out their yardage and that proves that. They're all about 6,600 and 6,700 yards. If you take the top 10 courses in the world and average out their yardage, they're all about 6,600 - 6,700 yards.