Modernizing Golf
Make it "Cool"
A few weeks ago, I spent some time with an old college friend and a young business development professional from one of the biggest golf and club management firms.
My college buddy is a successful businessman, good player, has qualified for USGA events and played on the Division 1 intercollegiate golf team. As one might expect, we got to talking about the state of the game and among other things, focused on the rules changes and whether they’ve achieved their purpose of modernizing and streamlining golf.
When the rules changes were announced, it seemed like a good thing to reduce the number of rules from 34 to 22. However, it seems as though some didn’t achieve their goals: