re: Anyone here ever play a round of golf with older equipment?

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, the best players will dominate the average tour guy, and 5-6 players will win most tournaments.

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the difference between the tour in the old days and the tour today is not how good the top guys are (or were). they were and still are the best of the best. the difference is that there are a lot more of the best players today. there are many, many, many more golfers in the world today and most of those that showed talent at the early ages received the best instruction, equipment and "mental" training. that results in a field, top to bottom, much better than the old days. hell, Lee Trevino was a caddy and taught himself how to play golf. and he wasn't the only one. the early pros were looked down on and couldn't play at the best courses which were country clubs where the best players were ametuers (sp) like bobby jones. and Europe was a wasteland after ww2. I don't even think golf was played on the continent until the 50's or 60's and asia is also a place where golf is a fairly new sport.

yea, the equipment is better but the courses were shorter but not in the shape of the courses today either.

I grew up playing with old stuff in the 1970's.

A driver was really difficult to hit, but many course were park style and none were 7000 yards. I hit my 3 wood off of most tees and did fine. The only thing old clubs did better for me was chipping bc all the big head and perimeter weighting take some of the subtle feel off of a short chip.

Equipment and the modern golf ball have really changed the game. A driver is fairly easy to hit now.

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See, I think that argument can be turned around to say that Connor's inferior competition was hurt even more so by the equipment of the time, hence his dominance.

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Makes sense.

Graphite racquets exploded the game.

Technology can level the playing field - with forgiving equipment - but it also makes the genius stars that much better.

It's fair to say better equipment creates bigger fields of world class players - but the top class still separates themselves even further.

Everyone plays in their own era.

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Tennis would be a lot more entertaining on the whole IMO if they were using wooden rackets now. A big serve is nice but seeing longer points with sustained volleys is a lot more interesting and competitive overall IMO.

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The greatest sportswriter of all-time nailed it:

"Why should you get two serves? You don't get two at-bats one right after the other in an inning. If you hit a foul pop-up, you're out. If you miss the putt in golf, that's it. The service ace is probably the single most boring thing in sports next to the foul tip anyway, but tennis encourages it by giving you a mulligan on your serve, so you can go for it on the first serve. I wonder what king thought that one up?" - Jim Murray

(Tennis would be awesome if you only got one serve - you couldn't just rear back and go for broke every serve...you would have to be strategic and choose when you would want to go for it...and the rest would be middle ground returnable serves.)

They should have one or two "throwback" tournaments where everyone has to play with old school equipment (1960s, not 1860s). Clubs and balls.

Why not just take the guys who actually lived it's words for it.

Arnie, Jack, and Player have all said numerous times that the guys playing today are better than they were. And Jack has said multiple times that tiger is the best golfer he has ever seen including himself.