Recent USGA/RNA Model Rule on driver length

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By Peter G

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  1. Peter G

    Peter G

    Military

    Any thoughts on this latest announcement by the USGA/RNA with a model rule setting max club length (excluding putter) to 46 inches? I get the intent. Some of the golf media seems to be really against this and stating that there are only a couple of players dabbling in this, so why create a rule? On the other side of the coin, this same media was all over the USGA when they put the kabosh on anchored putters saying how can you do this, so many people have been doing it for so long? So, that aside, any thoughts on this rule and how else the USGA/RNA might create rules in order to preserve the history of the game, i.e., keep the older courses in the rotation? Personally, I think pinching in fairways at the longer landing areas (already being done on a lot of courses) AND planting bushes and trees in the rough areas! Players are getting stronger and stronger and able to rip through long rough...bushes and trees create a whole different problem! Also, stop making bunkers uniform. They shouldn't be where someone aims as the bailout when on an approach shot. They should be as penal, if not moreso, than the rough around a green! Whistling Straits and many of the courses in the UK have the right idea...Thoughts?

  2. Chuck Z

    Chuck Z
    Mt Pleasant, SC

    Military
    The media do not play the game for a living, do they. So they really do not have a say in this. Media is what is wrong with our country. Just on opinion. As the players improve the game should they try to buffer the abilities? Let them play the game. After all, the fairways are designed to run forever, great bunkers, fast greens, so if you got game you can score well. As to the bunkers, install Seth Raynor bunkers? Let the fairways grown a little and slow the greens down to about 8-9 on the meter. How to preserve the history of the game, let's go back to some of the old course designs as they play in Scotland and Ireland and Seth Raynor designs here in the states. The scores would drop? They would adapt? Course conditioning has a lot to doing with scoring as well. Add good equipment and great Titleist golfs balls and you have low scoring. The media is going to complain regardless, it is their job to report the negative. =(
  3. Frank P

    Frank P
    Port St. Lucie, FL

    Military
    Not really sure what the media has to do with this. This was a decision made by the USGA/R and A. The golf media certainly has a right to their opinion on golf related matters and since about 1/2 of the golf media are former Tour players, I'd say they know at least a little bit what they are talking about. The thing that strikes me funny on this issue is that The USGA has always been against bifurcation, yet this ruling only affects Tour players. The rest of the golfing world can go with the shaft up to 48".
  4. Eric H

    Eric H
    Ridgway, PA

    Some good point here. I personally believe this is a good start. We should exhaust every possible thing we can before we think about scaling the ball backwards. I dont like that as a solution. there are many ways to curb distance and scoring, if that truly is a problem. Some of the hardest holes in the world of pro golf are short holes, think riveria 10th or the 8th at royal troon, the list goes on. I do not want to see the ball brought back, so starting with the shaft length is a good place to start in my opinion. Fact is if theres no wind and the conditions are soft... there isn't a distance long enough to stop the best in the world... but there is a distance long enough for regular people.

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