Remember when banning smoking in restaurants was going to destroy restaurants? Smoking in aeroplanes? They, in the fashion of every lobby group from big tobacco, alcohol, gambling, oil companies, the NRA, and all the rest, argue out of self-interest and use fear of consequences as the base of their argument. Likely it was a decision unexpected by the ball makers who would prefer distance gains went on unchecked forever. The administration, understanding doing nothing wasn’t an option, did what the manufacturers wanted and instead opted not to split the game. That anything is taken from the 95+ per cent of golfers is entirely on the manufacturers who resisted any suggestion the game be bifurcated, thus separating the players at the highest levels from the rest. So little that most wouldn’t notice and if they do, well, move the tee markers up five yards. Perhaps it’s the inherent mistrust or scepticism of government and its role in the United States but there is a widespread backlash against the administration taking perhaps up to 25 yards off the very longest drivers and incrementally less from the shorter hitters. Padraig Harrington perhaps best summed the American problem when he said, recently: “It’s a distinctly different the reaction to the rollback in the United States than certainly in Ireland and in Europe.

You’d think the world was going to end judged by the reaction in the United States and the United States is primarily and inevitably where the debate is focused.

Of course not, it’d be silly but the debate about the proposed USGA/R&A ball rollback at the end of the decade is hysterical in the extreme. Someone invites you to the heaven on earth golf course by Alister MacKenzie at Cypress Point.ĭo you decline the invitation because it’s by the ocean and instead of driving 240 meters you’ll only get hit it 220? Imagine you live and play golf in mile-high Denver, where the altitude adds 10 per cent to your drives.

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