Bra topic. Du vil finne mange tilhørere blant de som virkelig går i dybden i golf og golfens (negative?) utvikling. Ballstriking er blitt en tapt kunst, mener mange, og det ødelegger banene fordi ingen spiller de slik de opprinnelig var ment for å spilles.
For de som er interessert i å rote seg bort i en verden av Hogan, Moe Norman, slicefixer, sevam1 (Secret in the dirt), lagpressure, Mac O'Grady og alskens svingreligioner, kan denne artikkelen være en fin innføring og et bra sted og starte:
http://www.bradleyhughesgolf.com/index. ... /equipment
Et utdrag:
This photograph of a hole shows perfectly what the modern golf game has become.
The red line indicates how this hole was designed to be played.
With the older equipment where the ball didn't travel as far and a 'wood' was actually made of wood you had to slide a drive up the left side of the fairway and let the natural contours bring the ball down towards the center of the fairway. You then had to avoid the fairway bunker with a shot that went too far and you had trees blocking your approach if you drove too far to the right and also a water hazard for the severe heel or toe mis- hit that veered off sideways. The left side was no bargain either with rough and a downhill sloping lie adding to the difficulty.
The blue line indicates how this hole is played today with the new technology
Drivers that have hot trampoline like faces with huge heads and huge sweet spots and light graphite shafts and hard plastic balls that hardly move in flight allow a fantastically designed golf hole to become nothing more than a joke . Players now drive over all the trouble that was intended in the course design. Players now put their tee shot with in a few yards of the green, hitting a chip shot instead of the 120 yard approach that the designer of the hole required by positioning the tee shot.
