ATLANTA — Plenty of discussion at this week’s Tour Championship revolves around East Lake Golf Club itself. The course recently underwent a restoration led by renowned architect Andrew Green, who also revamped Oak Hill Country Club, the site of the 2023 PGA Championship.
Viktor Hovland called East Lake a “major championship golf course,” while Scottie Scheffler kept talking about the greens. Many have used ‘challenging’ and ‘firm’ to describe these putting surfaces, which will run at about a 13 on the stimpmeter, perhaps creating U.S. Open-like conditions.
Newer golf courses—and ones with new green complexes—take a while to soften up and soak into the terrain. Hence, as we
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