Running a tournament doesn’t give Karns much time to play. "It's created an interesting situation but that's where the strength of this club and the community really, really helps us out," Karns said. But he knows this course well, having directed the Senior PGA at Oak Hill in 2019. His call to Rochester this time was last-minute. Karns spent the past two years in his native Oklahoma, where he oversaw both the PGA Championship and Senior PGA in consecutive years. "The trend right now," said Karns, "they don't call them renovations as much as restorations, because basically what they're doing is going back to some of the original designs." Many greens have been rebuilt and they’re surrounded by sand. Many of the old trees on the east course are gone. "But that’s what’s so fun about watching the top golfers in the world come tackle it. "Everything just comes at you like a beast," said Karns.
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