AFL
Cricket
Football
Golf
League
Motorsport
Union
Women
More Sport
Win
Newsletter Signup
Subscribe
Account Login
Username:
Password:
Remember me
login
Forgot your password?
Don't have an account? Register now!
News
Features
Podcasts
The Thing About Golf
Playing from the Tips
Courses & Travel
Equipment
Instruction
Galleries
Win
Account Login
Username:
Password:
Remember me
login
Forgot your password?
Don't have an account? Register now!
News
Features
Podcasts
The Thing About Golf
Playing from the Tips
Courses & Travel
Equipment
Instruction
Galleries
Win
+ All Sports
Newsletter Signup
Subscribe
Home
rollback
rollback
Morri: Does driver hold the key?
It was a throwaway line from DP World Tour player Andy Sullivan in Dubai, but it was telling about the distance debate on many levels.
22 Jan 2024
Golf's bombers to be reeled in by ball rollback
Golf's longest hitters will be reeled in under new rules that will limit the distance balls struck by the game's elite players can travel, starting from January 2028.
7 Dec 2023
McIlroy: Golf ball change won't affect average golfers
Rory McIlroy believes "elite pros" and equipment makers are to blame for an expected rule change which will reduce how far golf balls travel.
4 Dec 2023
Morri: In a perfect world
Like daydreaming about winning the lottery and what one would do with the money, the following is an unrealistic, poorly thought through and shallow view of how a perfect golf world might look.
11 Sep 2023
Morri: Rollback decision about saving face
Like a stone dropped in a pond the fallout from Jay Monahan’s rejection of the distance rollback proposal will continue to make waves in golf for a long time to come.
31 Jul 2023
PGA Tour memo covers LIV return, compensation and rollback
The PGA Tour has set up a compensation scheme for players who did not defect to LIV Golf and is also looking at establishing a pathway to reintegrate those who did.
28 Jul 2023
Opinion: He’s just like us
Tiger Woods and I both started playing golf at a young age. We also share the fact that our professional lives are built around golf.
5 Apr 2023
McIlroy throws support behind rollback
Proposals to limit the distance golf balls travel when struck by elite players have received the backing of four-time major winner Rory McIlroy.
23 Mar 2023
Morri: Rollback could test power of ruling bodies
Leaving aside the golf specific elements, the most important development from last week’s rollback proposal might end up being the first real test of the legitimacy of the game’s governing bodies in living memory.
20 Mar 2023
Players speak out in opposition to rule change
Proposals that would limit how far players can drive the ball at elite tournaments are "bad for the game of golf", two-time major winner Justin Thomas says.
17 Mar 2023
Opinion: LIV … golf but longer?
Another divide at the top level of the game has emerged. This time with clear intention.
15 Mar 2023
Model Local Rule proposal to limit golf ball distance at elite level announced
The R&A and USGA have proposed a Model Local Rule (MLR) that gives competition organisers the option to require use of golf balls that are tested under modified launch conditions to address the impacts of hitting distance in golf.
15 Mar 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
TaylorMade adds new Spider GT putters to line-up
TaylorMade Spider putters are amongst the most recognisable in the world, utilising unique shapes and materials to deliver industry-leading performance in high-MOI (moment of inertia) mallets, and now they have a whole new identity.
26 Jan 2022
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
USGA and R&A update on Distance Insights Project
On March 18, 2020, the USGA and The R&A announced that the release of research topics related to the next phase of the Distance Insights Project would be delayed to allow the greater golf industry to focus on its response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
10 Aug 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
Opinion: DeChambeau the agent of change
From all the talk amongst players, commentators and on social media, the ground shook at Colonial Country Club in Texas last week.
18 Jun 2020
Latest News
Minjee Lee makes move to stay in U.S Women's Open mix
1 Jun 2025
Scheffler surges into Memorial lead on moving day
1 Jun 2025
U.S Women's Open Second Round tee times
30 May 2025
Most Read
Cleary: our mate Digs and a jock called Pikey
26 May 2025
RANKING: Australia's Top-100 Public Access Courses for 2025
23 Jan 2025
RANKING: Australia's Top-100 Courses for 2024
24 Jan 2024
Say her name: U.S Women's Open tip is in
27 May 2025
