{"id":9682,"date":"2012-04-06T03:51:40","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T01:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/golf-big-three-want-to-limit-driving-distance\/"},"modified":"2012-04-06T03:51:40","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T01:51:40","slug":"golf-big-three-want-to-limit-driving-distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/golf-big-three-want-to-limit-driving-distance\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf-&#8216;Big Three&#8217; want to limit driving distance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Julian Linden<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">AUGUSTA, Georgia, April 5<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; The galleries whoop<br \/>\nand cheer when Tiger Woods drives the golf ball out of sight,<br \/>\nnodding their heads in amazement at the incredible distances he<br \/>\nand his fellow professionals now reach.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For some of the game&#8217;s elder statesmen, however, those nods<br \/>\nare being replaced by frowns and concern that technology is<br \/>\nruining the sport.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Golf&#8217;s &#8220;Big Three&#8221;, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Gary<br \/>\nPlayer, all believe the time has come to try to limit the<br \/>\ndistances players can hit the ball.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Personally, I think what has put the game of golf into a<br \/>\nlot of trouble is that the golf ball is going so far, and you&#8217;re<br \/>\nfinding golf pros going to play at different golf clubs,&#8221; Player<br \/>\ntold a news conference at the Masters on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All they had to do was let the technology go with the<br \/>\naverage golfer, that&#8217;s fantastic. But with professional golfers<br \/>\nwe have not seen big men come into this game yet.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are going to see the Michael Jordans and the likes come<br \/>\ninto golf, and they are already hitting drives 400 yards.<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re going to be hitting it so far, it&#8217;s frightening,&#8221; added<br \/>\nthe 76-year-old South African.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>WIDENING GAP<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Julian Linden AUGUSTA, Georgia, April 5 (Reuters) &#8211; The galleries whoop and cheer when Tiger Woods drives the golf ball out of sight, nodding their heads in amazement at the incredible distances he and his fellow professionals now reach. For some of the game&#8217;s elder statesmen, however, those nods are being replaced by frowns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-9682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}