State Of The Game 109 With Phil Blackmar

Longtime pro golfer-turned-television commentator Phil Blackmar penned this blog post looking at the enlargement of the game.

For better or worse, the biggest version of golf is here. Everything about the game is bigger. Bigger heads, longer shafts, longer drives, wider and longer holes, bigger courses. Even the professional players are bigger. In the ongoing, and often contentious distance debate, equipment advances bear the brunt of causation. “Romanticists”, as they are often called, long for the older game which valued curve, angles, accuracy and distance (yes distance), risk reward, and more. The game they relish was a smaller game founded in the equipment and golf course architecture of year’s past.

Guilty!

So Rod Morri, Mike Clayton and yours truly had him on State of the Game to discuss the ongoing matter of whether bigger is better.

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