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I love it the tight race at the end, and I think that's a common view.
With that said, there's a way to design good courses where the low round is -4 or -5 and there's a tight race at the end (barring someone playing out of their mind). I'm not talking about a course where there are tons of 525' par 3s and 950' par 4s, but look at hole 4 this weekend. only 15% got birdie, most earned par, and a little over 15% earned bogey or worse. Hole 5 was even harder. A course with 18 holes similar to their scoring spread would make for some tight golf, but also force players to earn their bogeys rather than panic about missing out on the opportunity. There's a place for both types of courses, but currently we only have the "scores are too low" type of course. I'd love to see the yin to this courses yang, where the winning score is single digits under par.
In terms of generating scoring spread of total scores for MPO, The Preserve Championship did OK. It came in 34th out of the 50 A-tier and above events I've looked at this year. Between Throw Down the Mountain and The Challenge @ Goat Hill Park.
FPO total course par was standard, but hole #5 could have had a higher par, and hole #11 a lower par.
MPO par was better this year, with only holes #7 and #18 having pars that were higher than standard.
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Thanks Steve for another awesome analysis!!!
On that note, seems like it should be obvious now that if a course generates a good scoring spread and does what it is supposed to, then overall course par hardly makes a difference. ...
The only thing I would say to this is I liked the variety of hole types.
I think that hole would be neat if the ground along the ridge was built up as a sort of false front, make distance control more important.