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Distance debate
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Huggan: The madness killing pro golf
Over the past couple of decades or so, there have been many examples of what we witnessed/endured during the opening rounds of the 123rd U.S Open Championship at the Los Angeles Country Club.
18 Jun 2023
Morri: Rahm’s distance comments don’t measure up
It’s an unanswerable question (aren’t they usually the best kind?) but how much attention should we pay to the game’s best players when considering topics outside the actual playing of the game?
6 Feb 2023
Huggan: Can we have our Old Course back please?
By the presumably informed calculation of a guy going by the name, Tiger Woods, the Open Championship is not scheduled to return to the Old Course at St. Andrews until 2030. This is no bad thing.
17 Jul 2022
Morri: Much more to golf than distance
It’s been a while since we talked distance in this digital space but given the topic is never far from the surface (no matter which side of the debate you’re on) let’s give it another whirl this week.
22 Nov 2021
Quayle’s monkey business
Anthony Quayle’s coach used to say his protégé was golf’s equivalent to a Formula 1 driver at the wheel of a Holden Barina.
26 Mar 2021
Morri: DeChambeau didn’t start distance debate
There are a couple of intertwined narratives developing around Arnold Palmer Invitational winner Bryson DeChambeau that are as lazy and wrong as they are irritating and misleading.
8 Mar 2021
Morri: Distance and golf’s footprint issue
The potential for changes to equipment will understandably grab the limelight in discussions about the Distance Insights Report but it is elsewhere within the study that the most important work is being done.
15 Feb 2021
Acushnet responds to USGA/R&A announcement
The USGA and R&A announced overnight a number of research topics and proposed changes to equipment standards following the collective Distance Insights project released last year.
3 Feb 2021
Morri: Distance debate not about golfers
It’s time again – unfortunately – to revisit the distance debate in the wake of Bryson DeChambeau’s US Open victory because many people still don’t seem to ‘get’ what the discussion is about.
28 Sep 2020
Morri: Entertainment trumps numbers
One of the great ironies of golf is that it is a game based almost exclusively on numbers yet almost none of its entertainment value is derived from those same numbers.
21 Sep 2020
Morri: Hard doesn’t equal good
Hard. Easy. Good. Bad. More than just words these are concepts in golf and they come loaded with pre-conceived notions about their relative individual merits.
20 Jul 2020
Morri: Is Bryson's 'bash-for-cash' pro golf's future?
Do we want golf to become another ‘bash’ game? The appeal of golf, to me at least, has always been that it isn’t a ‘bash’ game.
22 Jun 2020
The Huggan Interview: R&A chief executive Martin Slumbers
The R&A chief sits down to talk about the biggest issues facing golf, from grass roots participation numbers to the distance debate, gender equality, slow play and the Home of Golf, St Andrews.
11 Mar 2020
MORRI: The lesser of two evils
Let’s be done with this whole distance debate and just go ahead and implement the obvious solution: make golf courses shorter.
6 Jan 2020
Inside Golf Australia October 2018
Justin Thomas is pound-for-pound the world’s biggest hitter. In this month's edition of Golf Australia magazine, he explains the five key movements that drives his distance and can help you rip it, too.
20 Sep 2018
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