Monday
Apr112005
Masters Ball Vol. 3
Monday, April 11, 2005 at 09:52 AM
Bob Carney of Golf Digest has an excellent summary of the Masters ball talk and the various complications. To put this baby to bed now (well, for this week), the concept can be simple one. Tiger Woods offered a solution last year, but Hootie probably never read it since it went unreported.
It is, however in the forthcoming edition of The Future of Golf (subtle plug I know): “I think you should put a limit on the speed of a golf ball, the spin rate of a golf ball. You can increase the spin of the golf ball and make it so that we don't hit the ball as far. You can decrease the speed of the core. There's different ways you can get around it so that we're all playing under certain speed limits. Hopefully that will be the answer to a lot of the problems that we're having with golf course design around the world.” This prevents the bifurcation issue. The only complication is that it requires the USGA to admit it made mistakes. Since they are still struggling to admit Shinnecock went bad, don’t count on it.
It is, however in the forthcoming edition of The Future of Golf (subtle plug I know): “I think you should put a limit on the speed of a golf ball, the spin rate of a golf ball. You can increase the spin of the golf ball and make it so that we don't hit the ball as far. You can decrease the speed of the core. There's different ways you can get around it so that we're all playing under certain speed limits. Hopefully that will be the answer to a lot of the problems that we're having with golf course design around the world.” This prevents the bifurcation issue. The only complication is that it requires the USGA to admit it made mistakes. Since they are still struggling to admit Shinnecock went bad, don’t count on it.
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