The Impact of Time Travel

[phan52]

On 8/22/2023 at 7:56 PM, Nave said:

Golf Across Time: Navigating Different Eras

Imagine one day you are suddenly teeing off in the past in another era: You're playing by old rules, with ancient gear, and face different course maintenance.

I am old enough that I can say that I lived that. Wooden clubs with small heads, heavy steel shafts, irons that were basically blades with no forgiveness, balata balls that couldn't survive a well struck ball out of a sand trap . . . golf in the 70's was truly another era. Not to mention the grasses that couldn't survive the different climes in Northeast US. Turf maintenance was a lot of guesswork related to the weather that particular year. Will it rain or not? Plus, all sprinklers (if your course had them) were right down the center of the fairways, starving the rough. We always kept our fingers crossed about the turf conditions as summer rolled around. And this is at a place that had a regular PGA Tour stop. Public courses and clubs with less resources had it even worse.