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@xterrnal @logan_mathias @OhioStAthletics @OhioStateFB @Jr2Maine No… the money is only going up to compete.

@MMGOLFSTUDIOS @logan_mathias @OhioStAthletics @OhioStateFB @Jr2Maine the same way they’ve come up with tens of millions of dollars in the past. are you dumb 😂

You asked, we delivered 😮‍💨

@Top100Rick A pre tourney 2 should be accounted for… everyone who has played tournament golf knows it’s coming

That said, I do have some sympathy if the dude needed to go use the bathroom #2. We’ve all been there. Sometimes you gotta go.

This is crazy. Garrick Higo gets a 2 shot penalty for being 1 minute late to the tee! Is this too much of a penalty? I say no. You got one job. You get there on time. Now, maybe they dole out some penalties for slow play while they are at it!

@MMGOLFSTUDIOS Bro was facing hurricane force winds

6i from 153… we are playing some fucking golf today kids

@reallyD0T It was blowing like 25mph

@MMGOLFSTUDIOS Quick! this is everyone’s chance to prove that their 6i is longer

@jwtnvol It was into a 25mph wind

@MMGOLFSTUDIOS Did you put it 50 yards past the green?

@golfafter60 Twas blowin out there today

20-24 mph steady wind today...happy with an 84!

@MMGOLFSTUDIOS Windy?

@HapGolf Much

Shot 38 and am psyched about it

@logan_mathias @OhioStAthletics @OhioStateFB @Jr2Maine Sounds all well and good but where are you going to come up with the tens of millions of dollars?

@OhioStAthletics @OhioStateFB @Jr2Maine Thank you Now please keep sponsors off of this perfect jersey.

@bschaf12 @pj_sullivan93 @jamierkennedy Any pro course has plenty of budget. And if they find courses who can’t afford it the PGA Tour can build a TPC course wherever they want, charge $500, fill the sheet and do anything they want with it.

@MMGOLFSTUDIOS @pj_sullivan93 @jamierkennedy I'm saying the opposite - Augusta is fine, but no courses have Augusta's budget. I'm fine with bifurcation. My primary concern is the pro game

What are we doing here? The R&A said in December 2023 that top players would lose about 13 to 15 yards with a rolled back ball. Cam Young has been using a ball that would pass the new "rolled back" regulations. He averaged 302.7 yards (all drives) last season. He's averaging 302.7 yards this season. Adam Scott also said he has tested a conforming ball (via @RexHoggardGC) and lost... around 2 yards per drive. (Sigh.....)

@bschaf12 @pj_sullivan93 @jamierkennedy Augusta is fine fuck sake. There are 16000 golf courses in the U.S. and just using abandoned farmland room for 100,000 more. The PGA tour plays 40. There is NOT a lack of space.

@MMGOLFSTUDIOS @pj_sullivan93 @jamierkennedy Who's suggesting going back to 6300y courses? The point is that it's not as easy as just putting in an extra tee box. That land has to come from somewhere. Look at Augusta #13. Idk what's so hard to understand about that

@thwacknicklaus @McHeartattack3 Yeah, who ever thought about using lost ball bush and brush opportunities… certainly not MacKenzie🥴

@McHeartattack3 Why the hell would you do that? Donald Ross didn’t put bushes there. Neither did Tillinghast or MacKenzie. Why would we bastardize historic monuments to the game of golf, our Fenways, Wrigleys, Yankee stadium, so the CEO of Acushnet can pocket 10M dollars a year??

Why a ROLL BACK? Imagine a hole. 450yd par 4. Straight. Bunkers on each side — 275 carry from the tee. Medium rough. EVERY SINGLE MODERN TOUR PLAYER Will send it over those bunkers with driver. EVERY TIME. LEAVING SAND WEDGE IN. Now for the roll back… (read on) Imagine a reduced-sized driver head. 200CC—similar to the size of a persimmon driver. Can/will players still be able to hit it 300 yards? Sure. And they should! The difference is this: THEY CAN’T ALL DO IT EVERY TIME. It’s a harder shot, mostly because the penalty for missing just slightly (with a head that size) is: A) fairway bunker from 175 out or B) rough from the same distance SOME PLAYERS WILL STILL GO FOR IT for the following reasons: 1) they are just really good ball strikers and trust that they consistently have that shot in the bag (Rory/Scottie). 2) they’re under the gun trying to make a cut or chase someone down on Sunday and want to apply pressure. BUT MANY PLAYERS WILL LAY BACK! Why? 1) They don’t want to hit a 175 yard bunker shot or 175 shot from the rough 2) They’re more comfortable hitting a mid iron from the fairway 3) They’re just not feeling it that day. Swing is a little off (wouldn’t matter with modern driver—they’d still send it…) ESSENTIALLY, Rolling the ball back takes a simple hole and introduces many different outcomes and complexities that are essentially gone from the game right now. If Rory ships one over that bunker with a tiny club head to keep the gas pedal down on Sunday, that’s a brave and admirable shot! (b/c we now know what could happen if he misses) If another player chooses to hit 3 wood to keep it in the fairway and flags a 5 iron and makes birdie, we know what a remarkable play that was (b/c it’s more difficult that hitting a lob wedge from 103 yds out of medium rough!) To close, golf a the professional level is better when there are more outcomes, not fewer. The better players will rise to the top—those who hit the ball better or (AND THIS IS KEY) those who make better decisions. The modern game has taken most of the strategy out of professional golf. It can easily be brought back! But you have to reduce club head size to do it.

@bschaf12 @pj_sullivan93 @jamierkennedy This is always the dumbest argument… more land and maintenance? We’re not going back to building 6300y tipped out courses. And maintaining an extra tee box is not busting the budget anywhere.

@pj_sullivan93 @jamierkennedy Even if you don't care about that, longer courses require more land to be purchased and higher maintenance costs and those costs get passed to the consumer

@silver_fawx That doesn’t change this

@MMGOLFSTUDIOS You forgot they move up a tee box or two.

Fairways are effectively 10 yards wider when you’re 50 yards shorter. They didn’t get more accurate

@bored2dthNashvL Your mother did

@MMGOLFSTUDIOS Nobody set you up for that joke you fucking idiot

This is something I have never experienced.

@MMGOLFSTUDIOS Yeah, that and a woman’s touch

@mccormickoleary Then they should know how to produce over 120 ball speed

@MMGOLFSTUDIOS They also have 50+ more years of golf experience in this example but I guess that’s a totally disregarded variable