Much ado about nothing?
Cameron Young’s success with a future-compliant golf ball exposes a glaring flaw: If the "short" ball still goes 375 yards, what is the point of the exercise?
There is a fascinating equipment story making its way around this week’s PGA Championship at Aronimink Golf Club. It’s the ball that Cameron Young began using at last year’s Wyndham Championship, where he won his first PGA Tour title, and with which he has won twice more this year.
The Titleist ball he plays, it has been reported, would conform to the new rollback standards that the USGA and R&A might — might — enforce beginning in 2030. That’s weird right off the bat because Young hit a drive with that ball 375 yards on the final hole of the Players at TPC Sawgrass, where he won by a stroke over Matt Fitzpatrick.
Doesn’t sound like much of a rollback.
