The only possible way to enforce the Shivas Cheater Rule would be to require balls with no markings at all, but that would lead to chaos vis a vis ball identification, and those with truly gifted eyesight could still employ the Brauner Method, using the dimples for alignment. So, the next logical step, Which I cal the Farnsworth Conjecture is:
1. The removal of all dimples and logos, giving us a pristine sphere to play with.
2. Identification by shades of color (special glasses allowed for those affected by Daltonism).
3. No marking of any kind allowed.
Now, I hear rumblings for rural New Jersey, how will the infamous Golf Ball Manufacturers Cartel stand for that? No Logos? You might as well print a Bible without "The Word." But, just think a bit out of the tee box...
If no marking of any kind is allowed, players will be obliged, under penalty oif disqualification, to unwrap a new pelota every time they make any sort of mark on their ball. Bingo! Sales of golf balls will triple in the first year of adoption of this rule. But, continue the most nerdish of you, what about the lack of dimples? Didn't the original gutties fly like knuckleballs until somebody discovered that gashes (i.e. dimples) made them fly farther and straighter? Of course, and this is the most elegant genius of the Conjecture.....
As perfectly spherical balls will fly shorter and more crookedly, both the Distance and the Anti-Strategy Conundra are solved and resolved, in one swell foop! Not only that, but after a while trying to golf those unblemished orbs, demand will rise and then grow for a return to the feathery. Stocks of top hat manufacturers will soar on Wall Street. The only losers will be the ducks, and the influence of their lobby at the courts of Far Hills and Pilmour place is insignificant.
Quod erat demonstrandum, post hoc ergo propter hoc et reductio ad absurdum!