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Castle tee? You obviously couldn’t build a mound AS WELL.

Guess what, most every rule in golf is ‘unworkable’ because you referee yourself. Marking the ball on the green, pressing down in the rough, admitting accidentally moving the ball.. it’s all equally unworkable yeah?

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I don’t know who they were or why they were chosen. They were cold no practice and hit a green from 300 out. Imagine what stars would do with practice.

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I play with a couple of D1 college players and teaching pros that have no problem doing it in a tournament. But they actually practice hitting driver off the deck.

It doesn’t mean they can score but it can definitely be done.

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It was just a video of people hitting driver off the deck in a thread where people were talking about hitting driver off deck. You were the one that quoted me.

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"A couple of players here and there hitting certain shots with many unknown variables isn't great evidence though."

Too funny. What's your evidence? The point is , Tour pros can hit it far off the deck, lowering the tee height may have some effect, but ultimately these players are so good they would quickly learn to smash the ball off of a 1/2 inch tee.

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Miles, an interesting idea you've put forward and certainly cost effective as well. Essentially you're taking the driver out of the hands of tour pros and making them tee off with a 3-wood with today's equipment.

What happens though when club manufacturers figure out how to optimize a driver clubhead for a 1/2" tee and ball technology keeps advancing from a distance POV ?

The 1/2" tee may stem the tide for awhile, but IMO technology will catch up and we'll be back when we are now.

 

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To be sure, it would have an immediate impact, and then distances would slowly increase for the reasons you say.

but I just don’t see them getting near where they are now for the same reason no one swings off their feet with a 3 wood, you just don’t have the margin for error with a smaller club.

just give it a go for one non significant tournament somewhere, anywhere. Perhaps on a course that is otherwise long since disused in tournaments (dozens in the U.K. alone). The pro’s who are known for ball striking should be in favour, if they know which side their bread is buttered on.

 

 

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People don't realize how short 1/2" is. I sort of agree with you; I believe that manufacturers would come up with something like a 2-wood for professional play. Loft around 11* to 12*. I would take much more skill to play tee shots within those parameters. It would also be next to impossible to achieve a positive angle of attack.

I am in favor of the ruling bodies trying ideas such as this one.

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Utter bs. Pros would figure out very quickly how to launch over 300.

Did you ever pay attention to some of the longest drivers with persimmon? I mean long drive competitors?

I played with a couple who were well over 300 pre-Pro V and they teed it low.

A couple videos won't change that.

Over the top Red herring.

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WATCH: Dustin Johnson crushes Jack Nicklaus's persimmon driver 290 yardsNow, give him a year with all of the modern ball flight measuring technology and you're back to square one. 1/2 inch tees or not.

The bigger isuue is not many golf fans really want to see pros be restricted when it comes to pounding a golf ball. Certainly cannot go backwards.

 

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