Estate Living Digital Publication Issue 9 September 2015 | Page 21

W HAT’S PU TTING

and golf balls. This debate will probably continue
to simmer and the authorities will still consider
it necessary to put the pins in the bunkers and
shave greens to register in the high teens on the
stimp-meter in order to protect us all from the
demon of obsolescence!
One thing is a fair bet and that is that no
equipment changes will ever render any course
obsolete from the amateur perspective and any
technology that can help the average golfer enjoy
his or her round should be encouraged. This
does not mean that radar-controlled balls should
be rushed into professionals’ shops around
the country, but, whatever improvements in
technology and design are effected by the
manufacturers, the value of these new advances,
to the eternal gratitude of teaching professionals
everywhere, will almost always be largely nullified
by the persistent ineptitude of the players trying
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