PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – Graeme McDowell’s sympathy for the game’s great golf courses has him leaning toward the USGA and R&A’s conclusion that unrelenting distance gains are detrimental to the game.
He didn’t have a chance to review specifics of the Distance Insights Project on Tuesday, as he prepared to play the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, but he generally agrees something needs to be done to curb the distance trend.
“When it starts to affect the integrity of some of the greatest courses in the game, where you don’t have a lot of real estate left to make changes, there’s a problem,” McDowell told GolfChannel.