[Cyncceply]

Indeed it is.

[CarrieSexy]

I can't see them dialing the balls back, but I can see them capping the balls at their current technology, which seems reasonable.

[JacksHH]

Jack Nicklaus recently commented that the ball is the one common factor for all golfers where distance could be limited.

Why would changing the ball be different then changing the equipment?

I like Jack and he has brought the ball thing up for sometime now every chance he gets. I think he would like to see the ball rolled back. The only problem I have with it, is that only the top 0.01% of all the worlds golfers, of which there are around 35 million, hit the ball too far. Jack also does not want to see two sets of rules for 99.9% of us and for the other 0.01% (pros) so he wants this change to be across the board. Jack has a bit of tunnel vision, looking only from the world class view. Like the groove rule, rolling back the ball could have a huge negative impact on us that make of the 99.9%. Pretty sad that the ruling bodies are looking at everything based only on what happens on tour.

[AccusaJalsBub]

Quite a few years ago, the golf channel had a "round table" about the future of the game, and Jack was talking about limiting the balls and how "everyone is so obsessed with distance and just wants to bomb 300 yard drives." To which one of the other forum members said, "Yeah, Jack, everyone wants to play like you!!"

[Usesdiums]

For some reason, I thought the tour average was right around 270, but I very well may be mistaken.

Tour average is right around 290 pretty sure. I remember seeing it quite a bit while watching golf

[Gymnfacymoota]

The simple solution would be to have the PGA tell the courses to move the tees back.

[LSg44PDu]

Maybe the solution is to make the pros drink a couple of beers on each nine and ban them from the gym.

There are virtually no par 5's on the pro tours any more; they hit driver/7 iron into many of them.

So what if they shoot in the 50's on some of the older/shorter courses. I can't (and never could) even on an executive course; that doesn't mean I can't have fun on one.

The governing bodies limit the ball speed now; they limit the COR. Like they say for the Champion's Tour, "These Guys are Good"

Let 'em play.

[JacksHH]

We don't play 7500 yard courses either and we have the option to move up a set of tees. I think you overestimate the effect any change would have on the masses.

I disagree. If they roll back the ball to take say 50 yards off the tee shots for the world class player, what do you think the distance loss will be for us? I think it could have a huge negative effect on the other 99.9%. We don't want the ruling bodies to stymie us just because of a few.

[JacksHH]

I still don't understand what the big problem is. Average distance isn't out of this world, even on Tour. The longest guys aren't necessarily the best guys either.

I agree Hawk, but Jack has been talking about the need to rollback the ball for a couple of years now as the answer to the course becoming too short for the pro players. I just hope that they don't go the same route as the groove rule. The groove rule change had a much greater negative impact on us than it had on the professionals.