and now a local rule is proposed to suggest he use a driver two inches shorter than a 5 foot 4 LPGA star currently uses.
How does a tall player hit a wedge, if they "need" a 48" driver? Do you even know what the length of the kid's driver is now?
So an 8 foot tall player can't use a 47 inch driiver because his wedge is shorter?
Pretty sure they are trying to accomplish different planes and different arcs with the the two extremes in clubs, and at some point a very tall player with short arms might have a problem with a mandated shaft length(purely hypothetically).
48 inch driver is just arbitrary garbage that effects hardly anyone, and does nothing at all to "protect classic courses", as very, very few use a long driver, yet still courses are routinely too small in scale for both elite competition and safety(which is of course a matter of opinion).
Just the USGA howling at the moon as if they're actually doing something.
The ship sailed, I'm on your team now, as is just about every old fart who ever gave a darn about the integrity of the game 20 plus years ago, who got old and needs the distance and/or is tired of the battle/accepted the outcome and the rest can't remember a time when their driver didn't rebound and their ball had no tradeoffs involving distance and spin-so they certainly aren't on board with real change.
If 48 inch drivers, or anchored putters(the "bad"(chest) kind, not the "OK"(armlock) kind were deskilling the game, everybody would've been doing it, and they're not.
Just more howling at the moon, to avoid real regulation without 20 more years of study.
The other thing is it does nothing for the long and wrong high speed 6 handicap who uses a 48 inch driver to threaten homes and other golfers, as it's merely an adopted local rule, or a "condition of competition" for certain events.