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Here's what Phil Mickelson says would be better than rolling back driver-shaft lengths

While his season may be over, Phil Mickelson isn't backing down.

A week after he called out the USGA for supposedly planning to roll back the permitted length of driver shafts from 48 to 46 inches, Mickelson dove deeper into the matter, accusing golf's governing body of making the "wrong adjustments to the game" in an attempt to combat ever-increasing distance gains, in a three-minute Twitter video posted on Thursday.

"Let's identify what the real problem is," said Mickelson, who is one of the few tour pros who uses a driver shaft longer than 46 inches (47.