Measures put in place to curb increased distance, if they are at all, would impact players like Dustin Johnson.
THE distance report jointly released by the Royal & Ancient Golf Club (R&A) and United States Golf Association (USGA) a fortnight ago has been rebuffed by one of the game’s heavyweights – Acushnet Company president and CEO David Maher.
The head of Acushnet, the parent company of Titleist and FootJoy, said this week in a release entitled “A Perspective on the Distance Insights Report” that the findings of the Distance Insights Project commissioned by the two world governing bodies was off the mark.
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