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Hostile Tone Means Grand Slam Events Will End Up A Central Leverage Piece In Distance Debate

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Geoff Shackelford
Feb 03, 2021
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They flooded the zone.

The USGA and R&A played hardball. No more nice guys and gals in Far Hills and St Andrews. It’s unbelievable.

Since waking to the governing bodies announcing they plan to do something about the erosion of certain skills and the unsustainable overemphasis on distance, I’ve been unable to wrap my head around the layers of their rollou…

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