During this year’s Masters tournament a few weeks ago in Augusta, Georgia, golf industry’s three titans, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player, expressed their collective concerns over the agile golf balls. It seems now these days, golf balls can roll many, many extra yards after they land on the fairway. To accommodate the extremely long shots, many golf courses had to be lengthened at great expenses.
Since all these extra reconstruction costs will eventually trickle down to the consumers in the forms of higher green fees and exorbitant membership dues, golfing may become unreachable for the average players both financially and physically. As the three golfing greats had perceived, longer golf courses are definitely not good for their industry.
I realize that there are many more urgent situations in this imperfect world that needs our immediate attention. Who cares how far a golf ball flies! But in the States, golfing is a quite common past time for the average public. Fortunately, there are many well-maintained public links around with reasonable green fees. In the event, if the public courses are following what the private clubs did to accommodate the flying golf balls, pretty soon this enjoyable ancient sport may become a past for the many weekend duffers. - Ayee
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