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Well, the talk all week leading into the Players Championship were “firm and fast”. If I had a nickel for every time I heard that phrase the past month regarding TPC Sawgrass, I’d have half the check the winner’s going to pocket. (By the way, when are we going to see “firm and fast”?)

Get ready, though. It appears that the Commissioner’s fax machine has continued to spit out talking points and it’s rolled over into next week’s AT&T Classic at TPC Sugarloaf in Duluth, Georgia.

“The golf course should play much firmer and faster, which is the way it was designed to play,” Crawford said.

Since last year’s tournament, Crawford’s crews have completed the conversion from zoysia rough to Bermuda rough on the back nine. The front nine was finished last year.
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“All these changes are designed to bring the bunkers back into play and get the course the way Greg Norman designed it,” Crawford said.

Cink said, “The fairways are running good, and it’s not that wide open; you’re not hitting into fields like you used to when the rough was dormant. Now they’ve brought some of the edges in, and it’s a pretty good driving course.”

I’m curious - which golf course in America was not designed to play “firm and fast”? By the way, Phil Mickelson won last year’s tournament at TPC Sugarloaf at -28.

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