Americans are uncommonly inventive – and there’s nothing at all wrong with that – but golf, at times, is victimized by innovation just as much as it has benefitted from it. Easier is not necessarily better, faster for us isn’t always faster for them and the afflicted among us shouldn’t be penalized every time they find a way that works that might look a little funny.
Topic A is distance-measuring devices, or DMDs, aka rangefinders. The PGA of America, in one of its most head-scratching moves ever, is allowing DMDs this week at the PGA Championship on the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island, S.