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  1. No, I agree it isn't an irrelevant tradition. We will see how it goes in the future. I would stick with woods and irons. Irons are an interesting example though, having kept their name even though these clubs haven't been made of iron for at least a century.
  2. Woods are made of metal and irons have not been made of iron for a very long time. Is it time for a change, or is it that golf values tradition?
  3. The "evidence" you cited hardly supports your grand conclusion that scores on the world's golf courses have improved during the past thirty years. If you like information, data, and facts, then you are going to have to provide a whole lot more facts than what was provided in a magazine poll.
  4. That truly is comparing apples to oranges. Many golfers, millions probably, don't even turn in their handicap scores.
  5. Yes, I misspoke with that sentence. In those days I mostly played on two local courses, and it was a mistake to generalize from such a small sample. In the 70's, everyone played with blades--pure blades in my recollection--as they were all that was available. So, to play well golfers had to learn how to play these difficult irons, and ball striking would correspondingly improve. I think the current tendency to find ever more forgiving game improvement irons do not help a golfer to improve. Just the opposite, I think. For what it's worth, in those days I could drive the green on short par 4's with a persimmon wood. Sometimes, anyway. A pinnacle in those days was a rocket. The thing is, these courses, and their pars, are as they were fifty years ago. It's no coincidence that par remains unchanged on these courses.
  6. Yes, and I played with a Titleist balata ball and with pure blades. Par It's my experience that players were, by and large, more skilled 50 years ago--they basically had to be to play with blades Pace of play was significantly faster. If things can/should change and improve over time, then why is pace of play still an issue?
  7. When groups with differing numbers of players are on a course, particularly when it is crowded, it is inevitable that some players will perceive that they are held up by slow play. A single player or a twosome, and even a threesome, is most likely going to play faster than a foursome. This is at the very core of the issue. It was this way when I began playing fifty years ago, as it is now and ever will be. It has no solution short of mandating group size. As they say, it is what it is.
  8. There is one thing that could help with slow play, but it would surely cause an uproar: limit groups to two players. Almost invariably, it is a foursomes that holds up play on the entire course. There is a tendency of the members of a foursome to spend a lot of time interacting with each other rather than focusing on golf. Again, I've been golfing for the past fifty years, and it is a thing I am absolutely certain of.
  9. Keeping up with the group ahead certainly helps slow play. I've been s golfer since the mid-70's, and slow play has always been an irritant. I doubt there is a definitive solution to the problem. In my experience, a slow group or individual golfer either does not realize they are slow or just don't care. During a recent round there was a slow foursome ahead of our twosome. We waited on every tee as they hit their tee shots and then played at a leisurely pace. This was bad enough. But when we were able to begin playing, a twosome behind us began hitting balls into our group and even over our heads. When they caught up with us as we waited at the tee on the next hole they were ever apologetic and obviously very frustrated. We got it. Everyone was frustrated. I do not know a solution to this, and I once quit playing for several years because of it.
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