Rolling Back Equipment to 1980s Specs for Tour Players

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When pga tour pro's routinely hit it 415 yards we will have a problem.

If the USGA put a cap on the tech innovation, there would be no incentive for anyone to buy a new set of golf clubs except when one broke. So what we'd see is introduction of planned obsolescence to keep the club manufacturers in business. Your shafts and club heads would start becoming so cheaply made they would break after three years of use so they could sell you a new set of clubs.

Many amateurs have high club head speeds, but have difficulty controlling their shots and lack the talent necessary to play on the tour. So with the newest tech they'll be able to hit the ball 400 yds.

If the average touring pro starts routinely hitting 415 yd drives they'll have to start playing with limited flight range balls. But as it  is not all touring pros can drive the ball 300 yds. Where do you draw the line? Will this become like horse racing where you weight the horses to compensate for the weights of the jockeys? You limit the flights of the balls so that you level the playing field so that no one averages more than say an arbitrary 290 yd drive and you vary the ball per player? It'll get ridiculous.