The PGA of America has permitted their use at their competitive events in 2021, and the move has sparked an debate about whether it benefits the game and whether it will even achieve its intended purpose of speeding up the pace.
“Being honest, there’s a lot of things that I don’t agree with that the rules are changing because I’m kind of an old-school golfer,” she said of the new developments.
Her take on green-reading books is especially relevant this week, as reports about them being prohibited in the future on the PGA Tour have surfaced.
Like being able to adjust, doing math is part of golf, adding and subtracting, sometimes making a mistake that you added instead of subtracted, that’s just part of the game.
I feel like, yes, it is definitely an advantage, just like rangefinders are, but I feel like they’ve been in play now for a few years and it seems to be okay.
“To me it was a little bit sometimes that I felt like I lost the little junior player in myself, the one that got really excited about having a good read, hitting the putt where I wanted to and it going in, going, that was a perfect read,” she said.
Sometimes with the caddies, when you do the add-ups wrong or step it slightly wrong, you get a yard or two wrong, but we’re not going to get that with the yardage guns.
The divided opinion creates a sort of philosophical battleground ahead of the year’s third major, and comes at an interesting time in the sport’s technological evolution, when some governing bodies are curbing technology and others are forging ahead.
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