This probably won't find favour with the community in general but please, please can we do away with these super precise, very forgiving, slow meter, long hitting clubs? It's becoming insane. A friend of mine played a perfect round in last weeks 9 hole single play at Kia, 9 birdies with a couple of narrowly missed eagles.
And he finished in 4th place tied with 4 others. With a 9 under for 9 round.
I realise if the game becomes harder the same players will still probably win, that's not my issue. I find it mad that a 9 under is only good for 4th place. If he hit 3 under and came in 4th when the leaders hit 4 under then that's a lot better in my opinion.
Every new release of a longer driver or irons seems to come with more precision, forgiveness and a slower meter. There is no risk/reward at all.
It's got to the point where even an average player like myself is disgruntled when an approach shot is more than 10 feet from the hole and you need at least 8 or 9 under to place anywhere. A 7 under round tied you for 22nd place in that particular tourney.
Make the game harder, right now it's in danger of stagnating. Make clubs less forgiving or precise, make using the last 10% of the meter drop the club forgiveness, do anything to make the shots and scores more realistic. Freezing the grid dots on the down swing apparently wasn't enough ; ))