Is it time for a real-world alternative to the USGA?

[David in FL]

This is the sort of thing I think the USGA should be doing more often.  This type of real world field study and hopefully resulting recommendations will do so much more to help golf than the ad campaign, "While We're Young." [URL=http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-golf-gps-big-data-usga-20140604-story.html][U][COLOR=0066CC]http://www.latimes.c...0604-story.html[/COLOR][/U][/URL]

Guess how the results, lessons learned, and recommendations from this data will be disseminated to the golfing public. Yep, an ad campaign. ;-) Gotta say, it'll be interesting to hear the results,

[bkuehn1952]

Guess how the results, lessons learned, and recommendations from this data will be disseminated to the golfing public ... an ad campaign.

That could be right but I hope not.  Of course for many, the USGA does most things correctly so an ad campaign will be exactly what everyone wants.

[Dave2512]

What's the chance the gps experiment will include the golfers that cause slow play. I don't see this as an education issue as much as an enforcement issue. Most courses aren't brazen enough to risk losing customers. The golfer playing slow golf is the type that doesn't return their grocery cart to the bin or yield at the roundabout, it is intentional.