re: USGA and R&A declare "long distances must stop"

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Also love the standard ball idea. That makes so much sense.

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I want standard clubs, too. They can be fit to the golfer, but the same otherwise.

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Thing is, if you make holes narrower and require tight landing spots with hard angles, the players won't be able to hit 375 yard drives and pitch it up.

Just design courses to require them to hit 2-3 irons off the tee, and 7 irons into the green.

It can be done.

Also love the standard ball idea. That makes so much sense.

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the issue is land for this. It is really expensive to build and maintain longer courses, and what you are suggesting makes sense, but it also requires most of the tour stops to have to go to new, currently non-existing courses and is further taking the game away from the classic courses. You have Harbor Town and Colonial that are ready made, but you have a ton of courses that you cant do that with currently, and I would say that there arent courses you can achieve this with for 80% of tour stops.

You hit on angles, and that is key. Narrower doesnt help because these guys have such a wide dispersion anyways it still favors the longer hitters, unless there are actual penalties for being offline in the rough, which the tour refuses to do.