If you watch any practice round videos you can see that it is a free for all from the tee. The discussion that's not edited out revolves around wondering what is down the fairway. Could injuries be prevented simply by reigning in practice shots and having a more strategic plan. I make detailed map so this is all going to sound biased but if a player had a better map could they make more educated shots and throw fewer of them? DGPT hole maps 'look' better than most any other hole maps in regular use. None of them show you how to play the hole. How about this instead?
I think this is partly a caddy issue, and player stupidity issue.
But good course signs are ... not a thing.
But also a lot of dumb course design is a thing. Where designers are doing really silly things to try and "make it harder" for pro players. Vs trying to encourage good golf. So players are trying to push boundaries in shots that are not normal thrown shots so they have the birdy chance over the field.
This is one of the reasons I'm not participating in the MCO this year, I'm sick of the guy they got designing the course doing such a crappy job every year and they keep letting him come back. So I let them know. I'm out, done. I'm not participating until you get rid of this guy who's had 5 years to make a good course and they just get worse year after year with these dumb shot shapes and unnecessarily long shots that dont challenge players except in how far can they yeet the disc to give them an advantage.
Embarrassed by it. just done.
But being that I'm building a course now, I'm working out a plan/way to actually make more accurate Tee signs for my course.
I will, however, throw this bit of information in the hat on the tee signs and pro's learning/practicing the course. They dont look at the caddy book. They just go out, huck discs, say stupid shit and then play the tournament. Players dont see lines very often either. the information needs to be right in their face, because they are not going to look at the tee sign, they are not gonna look at the caddy book.
How do you know they dont look at the caddy book Wibin. Because when you have rules on the tee sign and rules even larger lettering in the caddy book, and the staff and rules officials have to explain it at least 25 times to players and groups. You know they didn't look. You could make the most informational caddy book in the world with all the best info and just outright work of art and accuracy.
10% of the field is going to look at it. And the only ones I know who look at it are the FPO players.
"what tee pad do I play from?" is one of the most common ones. You gotta respond back, "did you look at the caddy book? It's listed in there where to play from." And they get mad at you. Well, duh, it's right on the sign too. As they stand at the FPO pad confused.
This is all real stuff.
Sorry, that was a bit off track. But course design is a factor in some of these obscure shots people are trying to throw.
And then player stupidity on practice is another factor as they try and throw really dumb shots over and over again without actually scouting the hole.
Lets roll this in here. I have at least 200 rounds on this course, 300+ probably. Hole 6 cedar hill. The pro's absolutely hate this hole, and you can watch how they throw it. I know Eric hates it religiously and I've shown him how to throw the hole for birdy. I've shown multiple pro's how to throw this hole for birdy. They all wanna throw these forehands over the top. When you can just throw a forehand skip around the corner or an easy roller that all the old players throw.
Day 3 of the NT here all the pro masters guys were on the course. So I spotted hole 6 for them. I think 2 of the pro masters players didn't birdy the hole. All of them threw rollers but a few who threw putter turn overs. Then they cashed the putt and moved on. While the pro players are throwing over the top as hard as they can.
Why do pro players get hurt? cause they do dumb shit.