Distance Insight report rebuffed


Measures put in place to curb increased distance, if they are at all, would impact players like Dustin Johnson.

THE distance report jointly released by the Royal & Ancient Golf Club (R&A) and United States Golf Association (USGA) a fortnight ago has been rebuffed by one of the game’s heavyweights – Acushnet Company president and CEO David Maher.

The head of Acushnet, the parent company of Titleist and FootJoy, said this week in a release entitled “A Perspective on the Distance Insights Report” that the findings of the Distance Insights Project commissioned by the two world governing bodies was off the mark.

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