Feherty Advocates Making The Ball Bigger

Bob Carney says that during the Golf Channel's 19th Hole show last week, new Golf Channel everywhere man and internationally renowned cyclist David Feherty advocated an increase in the size of the ball to make the game more attractive to amateurs and more challenging for pros. Peter Kostis has another delusional subversive to tame!

"We made the ball larger before," said Feherty. "We went from 1.62 [the British ball] to 1.68. Why can't we take it to 1.71?" Feherty was referring to the agreement in 1990 that both sides of the Atlantic would play a ball of 1.680 inches.

A ball of 1.71 inches, says Feherty, would sit up better for amateurs, making it easier to hit, and be harder to control for pros.