Ordinary local golfers sometimes break par on ordinary local courses. Very few of them would ever be able to break par on a PGA tour course and certainly couldn’t do it with consistency. The course this week was difficult even by professional standards. I’m not defending Tiger in anyway. Actually, I’m taking pleasure in watching this guy’s game in the crapper.
I was at my best a 15 handicap, so I could shoot maybe 84 on the home course. Just a few times.
When I played a few serious championship courses off the back tees, I was lucky to break 100. I suspect on a major championship course, I would have been lucky to break 120.
Even on some of these cheap tournaments, where the pros shoot 15-20 under par for the four rounds...those courses are really, really tough for mere mortals. Those guys are damn good.