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Originally Posted by PokerHero77
I hope you realize that the current ball is governed to 317 yards @ 120 mph/2520 rpm/10 degree launch, meaning it is not "the best it can be".
I don't know how you came up with 700 yards between tees, thats 40 yards per hole.
If it ever came to that, I don't recall any course where tees cannot be moved up 5 yards to account for the expected difference to average golfers drives.
6-700 yards might be fairly uncommon, but playing a tourney this weekend and the boxes are 6450, 5900, 5350 so it isn't wildly out of range at lots of courses, particularly those with 3-4 boxes.
My favorite course on earth has boxes of 6700, 6200, 5700, 5000, 4000. I played 5700, so move up for me would in fact be 700 yards. Second favorite has 6800, 6250, 5750, 5100, 3900. I played 5750, so 650 yard move up there.
I'd love to see more courses use the "blended" boxes which doesn't require any extra maintenance for courses (meaning you have for example blue/white box which indicates some holes you play blue and others you play white).
And yeah, I understand the ball already has performance restrictions baked in. It's more that I'm paying, say, $50 for a box now with X performance, and then will be paying $50-60 for a box with less than X.
And I have played TONS of courses where the entire teeing ground is 5-7 yards front to back, so I don't think every course can just move the markers forward 5 yards each hole.
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Originally Posted by UnitedAs1
Yeah I don't think it will be a huge deal. I'm like a 8HC I hit it between 220-240 with a driver.
Honestly if you care about losing distance that much you could do more off the course to gain distance, If you're hitting it 220 and don't have any hinderances (age/disabilities/etc) then you're probably not anywhere near maxing out. If you don't want to do that then imo you don't really care all that much.
I wouldn't say I "care all that much", it's just annoying to have golf made incrementally harder for me just to appease a few egos of very rich people. I'll be entering my 50s as this goes into effect, so will likely begin naturally becoming shorter. I did get The Stack System this year which provided some benefit. The issue is adding more expense/effort/etc just to stay the same rather than to actually improve. I would say I'm somewhere in the middle on that. I bought the Stack, have been working on improving technique, but also do still use a 2010 or so driver.
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Originally Posted by campfirewest
Anything that causes an amateur to even perceive that they are losing a single yard is a horrible move for the game. Full stop.
Yeah, exactly. I'm not trying to come across as outraged or that I won't love golf or that this is a massive deal or whatever. It is just annoying and the equivalent of changing rules at a $1/2 cash table for something that only affects super high roller games. I do also recognize that it is entirely possible, given my lack of skill, golf variance, etc., that they could have silently done this and I would have never noticed. But the fact is they have told me "we are going to make golf incrementally harder for you because of reasons that have literally nothing to do with you and benefit you exactly zero" and it's annoying/frustrating, especially when I've been dealing with my dad already struggling with distance issues, etc.
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