Roll Back Discussion

[pendodave]

Reducing the distance pros hit the ball seems like a good idea. Will speed up play and it'll be nice to see them hitting more than a wedge into most holes.
As for the rest of us, I doubt it'll make much difference.
The amount of wailing and nashing of teeth on here makes it sound like a titleist shareholders meeting.

 

[Crow]

It's the standardisation of iron lifts.
9 iron 48 Deg
8 iron 44 Deg
and so on to
3 iron 24 deg
2 iron 20 deg

 

[Wabinez]

Golf world likely to go into meltdown tomorrow.

Maybe this is the #ShrinkTheGame we have been waiting for!

 

[Backsticks]

Rolling back won’t make any difference. The long hitters will still be long hitters. It will probably just give them even more of an advantage.

This is a fallacy. The smaller the distance range the lower the advantage of length. Reining in the distance does reduce the advantage of distance over other elements of the game. Golf was nicely balanced between distance, precision, shot variety, shortgame, putting, strategy. Distance has outgrown it share in the last 25 year. Time to restore the balance of the universe.

 

[Crow]

The easiest way to limit the ball distance is to keep the size the same but make make it lighter, this impacts longer hitters greater than shorter hitters.

 

[nickjdavis]

its bunkers isnt it...? finally some hard rules about where to leave the rake.

 

[Backsticks]

They feel golfers have been deceived for too long and want to come clean : all drivers are the same, shaft flexes makes no difference to the shot, and club 'fitting' has less scientific basis than voodoo.

 

[Jigger]

Not sure the R&A and USGA have anything to do with the tours?

They govern the rules for both.

 

[Backsticks]

They govern the rules for both.

And the LIV tour.

 

[Deleted member 31467]

They govern the rules for both.

Not sure that is correct, they govern the rules of golf but not the tours. The tours can do whatever they want as long as they abide by the rules of golf I believe.

 

[Jason.H]

The easiest way to limit the ball distance is to keep the size the same but make make it lighter, this impacts longer hitters greater than shorter hitters.

And what about the billions of balls in circulation? I agree with what your saying by the way but can’t see any change in the ball tbh.

 

[Jason.H]

And the LIV tour.

They grow the game

 

[Backsticks]

And what about the billions of balls in circulation? I agree with what your saying by the way but can’t see any change in the ball tbh.

Its not that bad. 1.2bn balls manufactured per year, over 400 million lost. A few stages of ramping to the new ball over 5 or 6 years would be no problem.
This could be the biggest change in golf since steel shafts dropped.
They must to it right. Not just out the brake on. Not just stall where we are. We need average PGAT drive back to 265, average 15hc back to 200. So many courses I would like to play again now that they would be back in scale.

 

[clubchamp98]

A proper handicap system that dosnt need divisions.

 

[Wabinez]

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/usga-and-r-a-ball-rollback-proposal/amp

 

[Jason.H]

Surely if it’s more for elite completion just ban the use it tees and save the headaches

 

[Mandofred]

Hope this doesn't turn into the hype surrounding the Segway.......ho hum.

 

[Backsticks]

Thats great news. I was hoping for 30 or 40 yards, but will take 20. Elite golf tomorrow, in 5 years time , the world. Rejoice !

 

[BiMGuy]

The easiest way to limit the ball distance is to keep the size the same but make make it lighter, this impacts longer hitters greater than shorter hitters.

Why should any change impact longer hitters rather than shorter hitters?

 

[BubbaP]

Should it progress it'll be interesting seeing how the manufacturers react. Some may abandon the elite market.