If an equipment rollback is coming to professional golf, Webb Simpson won’t be welcoming it with open arms.
Just hours after golf’s governing bodies announced their plan for curbing the distance boom at golf’s highest levels, one of the PGA Tour’s shorter hitters spoke out against proposals by the USGA and R&A to combat ever-increasing length, which included local rules to reduce the maximum length of driver shafts, as well as ideas for setting limits on golf clubs and balls.
“I've been kind of saying for the last few years, I don't think equipment is the problem.