...but are you honestly advocating that you put aesthetics above an experienced, skilled, and profitable event team that has a full scale distribution center a few miles away to use as home base? If that's your logic then Emporia should have never gotten all of those major bids either.
That is a quote from a previous post...
I want both aesthetics and a great course that tests the best...is that too much to ask for a major?
I saw it in Vermont and Pittsburgh and Worcester and Freeport/Augusta and York and Charlotte...these courses exist...and I'm sure that both exist in places that I haven't visited...
That is what should be (eventually, if not now) the standard for a major...Jarva and Konopiste fit the bill..so why can't we in the US provide beautiful courses as well for majors?
I guess that aesthetics aren't important for a lot of folks here...but it is for me...
And Winthrop Gold as well as Eureka Lake (which I also attended this year at Worlds) don't give me the aesthetics with sidewalks, parking lots, baseball fields, tiki triple mando wood structures, water towers, etc...
There are so many courses that are aeshthetically pleasing and a great test of golf...and yet this years World's had 3 rounds at a course that doesn't fit this profile (Northwoods was amazing though) and Winthrop Gold has the same lack of visual appeal ..
Maybe the courses that bost both visual appeal and a true test of golf aren't logistically ready for a major...but I'd rather see Vermont and Pittsburgh (Moraine/Deer Lakes) alternate World's every two years than see 3 rounds played at Eureka Lake...or 4 rounds played on the middle 9 holes at Winthrop Gold...and Emporia, ugghhh....