Distance: The Comment Period Said So Much

The nearly six-month opportunity to opine on golf's most pressing sustainability and skill issue reinforced what motivates each of the leading organizations.

The PGA Tour and PGA of America let it be known through memos-bound-to-be-leaked that they were against a proposed Model Local Rule ball to address the 21st Century distance explosion. They offered a litany of reasons. Some were reasonable, some nonsensical, some hypocritical and a few clumsily just repurposed manufacturer talking points. No where did t…