As we embark on another PGA Show, and today make the rounds at Demo Day at Orange County National, one might assume that new grooves restrictions by the USGA had silenced the debate about whether technology was overwhelming the game. Not so fast, long hitter. Our readers have not abandoned "ball control" as a way to keep things under control. A response this week to articles about tour pros looking for a way around the grooves restrictions by buying grandfathered Ping Eye-2 "U" grooved clubs:
It is nice to see that for PGA Tour pros it is business as usual even with the new groove rule implemented this year. Didn't the USGA know that some tour pros have been using short and mid-irons with with less biting grooves already to eliminate excess spin long before the USGA started it's crusade? Why did the USGA ignore the ball as the obvious and easy fix to their perceived problem with distance? All they had to do was mandate that the ball be just a little bit lighter than it's current weight. It would have effected everyone proportionally and been extremely simple for the manufactures to implement and easy for average golfers to conform to rather than buying a new set of irons sometime in the next five years. The USGA seems to run itself much like a government bureaucracy. Undertaking the most elaborate solution when a simple one would work so much better.
Carlo Scialla
Mendham NJ
Your quest is noble, Carlo. And, can you say "Quixotic?"
--Bob Carney
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