But here’s a question. For the Super Bowl, wouldn’t it be insane to widen the field another 25 yards and lengthen it by another 50? And the World Series–ditto for moving the fences back 100 feet? So if it’s insane to toughen the playing fields for elite events in other sports, why does the U.S. Open make their courses a House of Horrors, where the best players in the world barely eek out par? Speaking just for me, I don’t want to watch the world’s best hack out a 72 on a course you and I wouldn’t be able to break 120 playing on. Now granted, this year the rain made everything even worse, but come on: Leave the courses alone and let the story be between the best golfers in the world going head-to-head–instead of the #500 ranked player in the world falling into some dumb luck!