Malnati: "I would love to see where a drive of 300 yards is absolutely bombed."

Dave Shedloski quotes several players for GolfDigest.com on the distance topic, and besides the usual nonsense where the decathletes in the game today believe they would be harmed by 15 fewer dimples on their golf balls (or some other needed remedy), there was at least Peter Malnati.

A member of the Players Advisory Council, he offered this sinister technophobic threat to capitalism as we know it:

“As the ball has gotten longer, it has become disproportionately longer for the biggest hitters,” said Peter Malnati, who advocates for a 10-percent rollback that would impact all players. “Selfishly, I wouldn’t mind seeing them make a ball that affects only the top guys. That’s being selfish. I would love to see where a drive of 300 yards is absolutely bombed. That’s the limit. It’s clear that the path golf is on is not sustainable in regards to courses that we’re building that all are approaching 8,000 yards. That seems crazy.”