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Are you leaving the Masters in good hands?

Q: Are you leaving the Masters in good hands? Are there things that you’re worried about that they need to address in the future, distance of the ball, etc., Something that perhaps concerns you as you make your exit?

AP: Well, I think there are always things that you probably have some concerns about. I don’t think that has really much to do with the Masters itself. I think it’s golf. I think it’s the competition. It really, in my feeling and opinion, like it or not, I think the ball needs to be slowed down. I think the best thing that we can do, rather than continuing to try to extend the real estate and make the golf courses longer and longer and longer, we really need to look for a way to slow the ball down a little bit, and rather than if you don’t slow it down, as time goes on, it’s going to get the problem is going to become more severe because these young people are growing stronger, and equipment, the things that they do to shafts and clubs and heads and all within the rules.

The one thing that they can do that would be very key to competitive golf, and that is slow the golf ball down, either the initial velocity, or I suppose there are numerous things that you can do to make a difference. You can probably lighten it a little. You can probably enlarge it a little. There are all kinds of ways to look at slowing it down. But I think that if you’re going to try to do something about the distance these people hit the golf ball, that’s where you have to go.

Posted by scurry at March 28, 2006 12:19 PM