mike3216
Bogey Member
The frequency of the events you mention varies depending on surface and conditions. If I'm playing the AO, a course with a very high skip quotient, it is my job to adjust my game to that situation. If I don't, or can't, I'm going to lose to a player that can.
The random event that impacts an outcome is actually quite infrequent. The complaints about events being random, when indeed, they are due to poor course management, is very high. Yes, they happen but it isn't like a surface that impacts every ball that touches it. Most of our game is in the air and you position your landing zone depending on ground conditions. Most ob is due to user error. You can argue that you can define the fairway beyond human capability, but I've not seen that yet.
A lot of things I am seeing now as random may look differently once I play for awhile, I will admit.