re: Is Technology ruining Professional Golf?

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fortunately the courses are evolving with the technology, in fact they can outpace the technology if they want to but for the most part they dont.

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Tour courses can outpace technology I agree but not normal courses. In fact, normal courses should really start compacting themselves some. Shorten courses and tighten fairways on most courses to allow for faster play. I was at Ross bridge a few months back and got behind a foursome that was playing from oranges that couldn't hit it past the white tee markers because they wanted to be big boys.

Golf's popularity is going downhill fast and revenue is going down fast. i read a statistic a month or two ago that was unbelievable, in the drought the average cost of a golf course water bill (in the mid west) was $10k a month or more.

As for tour players, those guys are so damn good now because most of those guys have unlimited resources from birth and have a coach since they could walk. I was talking to a kid who plays for a local private school a few months back and he was 16 and could absolutely stripe the ball, his swing was damn near flawless. i asked him when he started getting lessons regularly and he told me when he was 7 but most of his teammates started around 4 or 5.