How would Bobby Jones, in his prime, fare against the players of today?
Burton: Using today’s equipment? I’d say he’d do very well, phenomenal even. He’d definitely hold his own against these guys. You know, he never used steel shafts in tournament play and he used the old golf balls that weren’t very good, and he still put up some amazing numbers. The better question might be, how would today’s players do if you made them play with the equipment Bobby Jones played with? That should answer that question right there. PGA.com: Describe your course for us. Burton: Well, it has 18 holes [laughter]. It’s a classic old-style course. A great walking course because all the greens and the next tee boxes are close together. The entire course sits on about 100 acres so it is a very tight layout. The front nine is located on one side of our lake and the back nine is located on the other. Both of those nines slope down towards the lake, so that might give you a good feel for the landscape. The holes pretty much run parallel to each other, the majority of them on a east
