Jim, my point regarding the ProV1x is that the ball does not benefit the average player. Doing away with it would have no impact on most golfers. It is one example of an aspect of the new technology which only provides a relative advantage to the longest hitters, and regulation could focus on that aspect of the game, and thus not make the game less fun for your other 150 golfers.
While I agree with you that only doing away with the ProV1x would not solve much, I disagree with you when you assert that long hitters like Dustin Johnson not be adversely impacted if they could no longer play such balls. They play the ball for a reason. Somewhere in the back threads there is a graph showing the year over year distance gain of those who switched to the ProV1x when it first came out. If those golfers could have achieved the same results with the ProV1 through optimization, then why didn't weren't they? Was it another strange conspiracy, like the one Brent suggests?
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Brent,
You've created this weird revisionist history where for decade after decade, the best golfers had been suffering under a horrible disadvantage of not being able to fully maximize their strength, as if the game at its core was inherently unfair to the likes of Nicklaus, and Jones, and Norman, or any every other long hitter who ever played before the advent of these new balls. You act is if the game somehow owed them another 30 or 40 yards off the tee just to even things out!
Well I don't buy it. I think the game worked pretty well before, and more importantly I think the architecture work well. Long hitters like Nicklaus, Palmer, Jones, Ray, etc. have always been justly rewarded. There was nothing unfair to them when the equipment didn't allow them to swing with reckless abandon and hit it 320+. And, most importantly in this context, they fit on the same courses as the rest of us.