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Joe Bausch

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Who wrote the following concerning technology getting out of control?
« on: December 25, 2011, 06:56:48 PM »
"Golfers used to be made on the golf courses.  Now they are made in the machine shops."

Hmmm, maybe Pete Dye?  Tom Doak?! 

Well, the end of the quote above sounds like someone from many years ago... ahh, the more things change the more things stay the same.  So which famous ODG said it?

Rather than having lots of guesses then revealing the answer, I'll just ask you think about it for a few seconds and take a shot at it. 

The answer is many lines below:







































From a February 8, 1941 article in the Syracuse Journal:

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Jerry Kluger

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Re: Who wrote the following concerning technology getting out of control?
« Reply #1 on: December 25, 2011, 07:18:16 PM »
Joe: I agree with you that technology has been seen as the enemy of gca for many years but I believe that it was part of the reason why golf grew for so many years.  By making the game easier it gained more players but economics and lifestyles have cut into those gains.  Any attempt to make the game more difficult for anyone other than the elite players will further decrease the number of players.
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jeffwarne

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Re: Who wrote the following concerning technology getting out of control?
« Reply #2 on: December 25, 2011, 09:01:09 PM »
Quote from: Jerry Kluger on December 25, 2011, 07:18:16 PM
Joe: I agree with you that technology has been seen as the enemy of gca for many years but I believe that it was part of the reason why golf grew for so many years.  By making the game easier it gained more players but economics and lifestyles have cut into those gains.  Any attempt to make the game more difficult for anyone other than the elite players will further decrease the number of players.

They made tennis easier and everyone quit....
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"Let's slow the damned greens down a bit, not take the character out of them." Tom Doak
"Take their focus off the grass and put it squarely on interesting golf." Don Mahaffey

Ronald Montesano

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Re: Who wrote the following concerning technology getting out of control?
« Reply #3 on: December 25, 2011, 09:02:37 PM »
Who are everyone? The courts in western New York are filled all summer long and, I'm told, there are still two professional tours. Unless that was tongue in cheek...
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jeffwarne

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Re: Who wrote the following concerning technology getting out of control?
« Reply #4 on: December 25, 2011, 09:25:09 PM »
Quote from: Ronald Montesano on December 25, 2011, 09:02:37 PM
Who are everyone? The courts in western New York are filled all summer long and, I'm told, there are still two professional tours. Unless that was tongue in cheek...

Google tennis participation dropping.
peaked in the 70's-right when Prince and Head began making nonwood large rackets.
Many tennis players quitting fueled the golf boom of the 90's

edit:another article says tennis is fastest growing major sport since 2000 (guess all our new golfers went back ;D)

Nice to hear both the courts in Buffalo are full in the the summer ;)
I'm amazed at how many golf courses there are in upstate New York.
Short seasons make avid players ;D
« Last Edit: December 25, 2011, 09:33:41 PM by jeffwarne »
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Tom_Doak

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Re: Who wrote the following concerning technology getting out of control?
« Reply #5 on: December 25, 2011, 11:29:50 PM »
Joe B:

I did not recognize the quote from Donald Ross, but it's a good one. 

I did remember his musings about not needing more than six clubs in his bag.  When we were at the World Architects' Forum in St. Andrews a couple of years ago, Tom Mackenzie floated the idea of restricting the pros to seven clubs instead of fourteen.  I will never forget the response from the Mr. Otto of the R&A, without missing a beat ... "The manufacturers wouldn't like that very much at all."

He sounded like a banking regulator from the USA!
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