"I urge you to stay strong and just say no to rangefinders and GPS devices. I want to play slower. I want inaccurate yardages when I compete on poorly marked courses."

Gary Van Sickle melts down over the continued ban on rangefinder use during PGA Tour play, an issue on the priority list somewhere between "revisiting the gallery ropes" and "should we send out scorers with each group."

Most surprising of all, Van Sickle is preaching the speed-of-play benefits when most college coaches will tell you their rangefinder-armed players still don't play ready golf, with some saying their players still use range-finders merely to confirm a yardage picked up out of a book or off a sprinkler head.

Last week I talked to a guy who runs a laser rangefinder company, and he said PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem told him that the Tour will never allow rangefinders because, he said, the Tour is in the entertainment business and doesn’t like the way the contraptions look.

I second that emotion. Looks totally matter. If you let pros use lasers, some Facebooking teenager may look up from Call of Duty and see a Tour player on TV wielding a high-tech electronic yardage device. The kid might ­actually get interested in golf, a game he had previously thought of as ­bassackwards, low-tech dumb. That’s exactly what we don’t want, some digitally savvy geeks taking up our game. We have too many golfers already—especially the hacks playing in front of me.

GVS, that's flogton.com for future reference.

How about just one solution to improve pace of play, accessibility and popularity that doesn't require a $300 purchase? Just one!