Organisers of this year's Open at Royal Birkdale have announced that, in keeping with the actions of almost every other tournament hosts, they are extending the course for the occasion.
It was maybe a little surprising that they have only added 155 yards in total, nothing in comparison to some of the hikes in distance imposed by officials at other tour events worried about the big hitters ripping their beloved course apart.
Thankfully, these are more subtle changes, and Open chiefs believe the course is still long enough and tough enough to be a real test.
In particular, the monster 17th hole, already the longest hole on the course, has been extended by 25 yards and the green raised to make the approach shot the stuff of nightmares.
Birkdale certainly won't lie down and let the top boys walk all over it.
Yet I have to take issue with one or two pundits who have been taken in by the pre-publicity hype and are salivating as to the setting of the course and what pleasure it will be to watch.
I'm not disputing for a minute that Birkdale is a wonderful course and very, very tough even for the elite.
But as many of you who will have been in the past or played it will know, it doesn't I'm afraid take your breath away scenery wise.
When you crest the low line of dunes and overlook the course, it just appears to be a huge rambling expanse of vegetation and sand, and the flatness of the surrounding area means the coastline in those parts does not have the picture postcard scenery of the Scottish courses.
And even the clubhouse does not have the classical architectural grandeur of St Andrews or to a lesser extent Lytham.
It always reminds me of a World War Two airfield control tower, though in the evening sun I suppose with its gleaming white walls it has a certain art deco charm.
Still, much though we love a charming backdrop, it is the action on the fairways that really matters, and Birkdale is by common consent one of the finest courses in Britain.
And if it throws up a winner who doesn't come from the usual suspects, as it has on the last two occasions there when Ian Baker-Finch and Mark O'Meara have triumphed, so much the better.