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Latest Editorial  "Fans don't really care how many yards the ball  goes"

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"Enough about Butch"

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Player Opinions

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Ernie Els: Ban the long putter

Els again: Titanium and new balls have hurt players like Tiger Woods.

Seve's Perspective Larger balls, more doglegs, ban lob wedges, no long putters.

Ben Crenshaw CIO story about technology's impact on the game "Too Much of a Good Thing"

Jack Nicklaus Lengthening Augusta "is absurd"

Tom Watson (tech.) is "making the game too easy to play"

Nick Price "a sweet spot four times the size of a wooden driver"

Craig Stadler  Walrus says advances have "got to stop somewhere"

The King says ball is going too far, clubs too hot.

 

More Views

Eddie Merrins "They might hit it 400 yards in the next 10 years." (Quoted from a Fox News report)

Preserve Golf cited in Superintendent's Divot Mix November 2003

Former USGA Tech. Director admits USGA is letting fear of litigation direct the game of golf

 

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Driving Stats

Driver Size

Big Head=Big Sweet Spot

Excellent  photo evidence showing sweet spot increase from 1998-2003

Ball Flight Distance

Senior Power?

Bifurcation

Separate Equipment

Deaden Balls?

Tradition v. Technology

Golf Ball Debate

USGA Size Limit

 

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The following column was written by Preserve Golf founder Mark Grim while he was working at The Othello Outlook (published 4/24/96).

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