Matt Adams recaps the weekend in golf including the Arnold Palmer Invitational, and we dive into the PGA Tour Player reactions to the proposed Golf Ball Rollback to shorten distance (spoiler, they aren’t please).
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F the USGA. They are a totally inept joke of an organization.
Apart from the Ryder Cup, Masters and the two Opens, no-one really cares. Just a bunch of rich guys paying themselves more and more money to play slow as shit golf. At the rate of decline (in speed of play), in five years a round will take 8 hours!! Great if you're on the tour raking it in, but crap for everyone else.
I hit a Pro V 180. I hit a Top Flight 170. I think it will screw up the game. If Pro golfers are hitting too far, there were so many other ways to create challenges. Narrow fairways, longer rough, longer cut on the fairways. Today’s courses are designed to maximize power/distance hitters. Grooming courses is important, but making them super courses, almost like playing on artificial turf, is more of an issue than which ball we use. Also, if power hitters are driving too far, make it mandatory to hit a 3 wood instead of a driver on the holes the older courses are unable to adapt to long hitters. It was a poorly thought out solution to a minor issue.
I cannot see how it will improve TV ratings, so they are just old men trying to piss off everyone. They succeeded. Now they can retire happy or move to another position of power.
Yes it’s about the money. Why else would you force rollback on regular recreational players where distance is not a problem. Most of these older players need the distance. If you must, do so where you feel distance is a problem which is in the pro game.
I will still buy my preowned golfballs online for 60% off
This is Bad, this is like letting Baseball Players hit the juice and hitting farther bombs because this will put people into different camps and hurt a lot of players negatively which in contrast helps players already hitting bombs benefit
How did the ProV1 originally pass the U.S.G.A. and R&A testing?
Dan Pohl in 1982 was the PGA Tour distance leader at 267. His club head speed was comparable to today's long hitters averaging 310.
As a PGA of America club professional, I have not much use for the USGA. Starting with the anchoring ban, which was allowed for 4 decades. And now the ball. The ProV has been out 25 years and that ball goes probably a yard further than 25 years ago. It's a joke, it's players that have gotten faster. Nicklaus in his prime was longer than anyone cause he could be. HERE'S THE BIGGEST PROOF. If you take the top 10 in driving distance, send them back to 1980 and give them a wooden driver and balata ball they'd all fly it past where Fuzzy Zeoller's ball ended up, BECAUSE THEY CAN. The driver and ball cannot be made to hit further till the end of time.
To add further as a PGA member, It doesn't matter what we think, like Justin Thomas once said, they're gonna do what they want. Like with anchoring a putter, the PGA of America sent out a survey at the time, 75% of PGA of America members didn't give a shit if someone anchored or not. The R&A and USGA did it anyway. Word has it that they promised Arnold Palmer that rule would go down no matter what.