DUBLIN, Ohio – Last week, R&A chief executive Martin Slumbers told the Daily Mail that Bryson DeChambeau’s distance gains were “extraordinary” and he warned that golf was still a “game of skill.”
That seems a subtle way of saying that if distance gains continue, golf’s rules makers will respond, in some way, to dial back those increases. On Wednesday at the Memorial, DeChambeau was asked about Slumbers’ comments.
“No matter what rules they give me, I'm going to try and do my best to maximize my athletic ability. They can't take working out away from me.