7/3/2023 0 Comments 2playrs![]() Still, the proposal is not without proponents. I mean, I don’t think that that’s right.” So I just, I think the USGA makes a lot of mistakes, and I don’t feel as though us, the players, should have to pay for it. “So if you have, you have to have it four or five up. ![]() “Yeah, the tee on 17 goes up against the fence,” Bradley said. Notably, Muirfield Village, the Memorial’s host, has lengthened its 16th and 17th holes ahead of this year’s tournament. I mean, what are you going to do if you roll the ball back on this course? You got to build all new tees. I don’t think that’s necessarily fair that we pay for their mistakes. They retroactively, decades later, try to adjust and then they just throw it on us. I don’t feel like it’s our fault that they think that the ball went too far or that they should have banned the belly putter. “I just feel like the USGA admits to making mistakes and then they punish the players for it. “Yeah, I have a really strange relationship with the USGA from the belly putter,” Bradley said. So, yes, though he was not at the Tuesday meeting, he did have a thought on the latest proposal, following his 65 on Saturday during the Memorial’s third round. Memorably, Bradley had played with a belly putter to start his career and played well, winning the 2011 PGA Championship, only for his putting to take a lengthy dive after the club was banned in 2016. According to various reports, representatives from the USGA and R&A met with the PGA Tour’s 16-member Player Advisory Council, its policy board and Tour executives on Tuesday at the Memorial Tournament, and Golf Channel reported that the rollback would not be supported by the players.Īs noted, his past with the USGA - or more specifically, its rules - has been cloudy. In that regard, the reception has been cool, at best. Tours and championships would have the option to adopt the response to golf’s distance issue - it would be a Model Local Rule - and the USGA, along with the R&A, is currently eliciting feedback. Introduced in mid-March, that plan would create a rule that would effectively roll back the golf ball and introduce bifurcation, i.e., creating a different set of rules for professionals and top amateurs vs. ![]() Keegan Bradley, who admits he already has a “really strange relationship” with the USGA, isn’t thrilled with the governing body’s latest proposal. Keegan Bradley hits his tee shot on Saturday on the 18th hole at Muirfield Village. ![]()
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