I think I like what you're doing with these changes, but I'm not 100% sure. :-P

I've of the opinion that many golf course features are drawn with far too many nodes and it looks like you are removing a lot of the nodes, which I'm okay with. Can you tell me more about your methodology?

This is colliding with some of my work this summer around golf courses (not necessarily in a bad way) and I'd like to also learn about your selection methodology and see if you're willing to tweak which areas you plan on working next to quiet things down on my end.

If you're on slack (OpenStreetMap US) or discord and want to discuss there in more real time, I could meet you there instead.