Now some grumpy previous males need to change the golf balls to cease the big boys from hitting bombs off the tee?
What a load of garbage.
I know there are lots of purists out there who really feel golf has turn out to be too straightforward as a result of the golf equipment and the balls have been designed in such a way to make the game easier.
Golf is a blerrie onerous recreation; ask any weekend golfer who tries his best to interrupt 100, so the simpler the producers can make it the more probably more folks will play it and take up the game. And which means extra money in the end for everybody involved in the sport.
I digress.
It now seems the PGA of America and the R&A need to herald a brand new rule permitting sure excursions and competitions the best to pressure gamers to make use of a ball that will not fly so far as the current ones do. We’re talking a ball that may journey about 20 to 30 metres less than they do now.
Change the course set-up
I assume it’s a load of rubbish. Yes, bigger hitters typically get an advantage off the tee, however not always. Golf is still a game about accuracy.
And if the rulers of the sport wish to make it tougher for the professionals (let me say, the ball change proposal is just for the professionals, not the amateurs) there are different ways to cease the ‘bombing’.
Because it’s almost unimaginable to elongate already established courses, authorities can make the fairways narrower, grow the tough, add bunkers and water, and make pin positions tighter than they are now.
These adjustments would make the massive hitters assume twice about pulling driver every time and smacking it down the fairway.
But even so, golf is about leisure and everybody likes seeing a giant, booming drive. It’s fun to observe and the players certainly get a kick out of it. I say depart the balls as they are!
Dané van Niekerk
Well, I didn’t see this coming. It was with sadness that we discovered this week of former Proteas women’s captain Dané van Niekerk calling time on her international career.
I think we all knew she was upset and angry about lacking out on selection for the T20 World Cup, because of a failed time trial run (which by the way in which I assume is ridiculous) however to retire from international cricket at 29 appears a bit drastic.
Dane van Niekerk has referred to as time on her Proteas profession. Picture: Isuru Sameera Peiris/Gallo Images
Van Niekerk is a world class cricketer and she certainly nonetheless has plenty to offer. The Proteas might be worse off with out her.
But, it is her determination and he or she could have her causes.
Finally on this matter, it was with shock that I examine Van Niekerk being called a “fat-shamed star” by Fox Sports in a story they did about the player’ retirement.
Van Niekerk rightly questioned the headline in a Twitter response, saying, “Excuse me?? Fat shamed?? Are u serious??”
What a shocker Fox Sports!!
Knights cricket
And now there may even be no top-class cricket in Bloemfontein after the Knights had been this week relegated to Division 2 in South Africa’s domestic cricket construction; this after two seasons of average to poor results left them final in the First Division factors table, throughout all competitions.
This is very unfortunate for the province and Bloemfontein, who’ve produced some great cricketers through the years.
How will this impression the promising faculty boys and girls; will they keep in Bloemfontein and play their cricket there or look to move elsewhere, as so lots of the rising rugby players have accomplished, following the Cheetahs’ demise.
I fear for the means ahead for top-class Free State sport. Bloemfontein has great faculties, great tertiary training amenities and it’s a lekker city but sadly for all the game fans there’s little to cheer proper now.