“If we get all of us working together rather than battling each other, it’s going to help a lot."

Jim Achenbach reports that PING CEO John Solheim is "positively effervescent" after the U.S.G.A. and the R&A met with golf equipment manufacturers in Vancouver to talk about how they can all get along better.

“I thought it was exceptional,” Solheim said Wednesday. “I couldn’t believe how well it went. The openness was really good – on both sides. In fact, in all the times we’ve met with the USGA and R&A, I’ve never seen this kind of openness. It was remarkable.”

As one scribe remarked today when I told him of PING's jubilation, it's about as comforting as learning that an oil company is praising a new piece of environmental legislation.

E. Michael Johnson wrote this summary of what the entities tried to cover and it's quite a long list. Naturally, this gave me a warm chuckle:

Another common thread was that one of the goals for any equipment rule change should be to grow the game of golf, and that if a rule change is counter-productive to that, then it should not be implemented.

Code for, a distance rollback would drive people from the game and right now it's so healthy, we can't have something like that!