Golf Blogger brought up in his blog how John Daly repeated his feat of reaching the Par 5 17th at Baltusrol in two.

Golf Blogger, as he tends to do, blogs without offering definitive opinions. He stated this is an "Exhibit A for how much technology has changed the game in the last 10 years."

I'll take it a bit further. The technology of today is a problem for golf worse than steroids are for baseball. Today's rocket propelling golf clubs are making a joke out of great golf courses all throughout the world. Yes, one has to harness the technology to make it useful. Unfortunately, golf courses cannot keep up.

Steroids threaten the integrity of baseball by simply casting doubt on players' performance. The stadiums themselves do not necessarily become irrelevant. Pitchers apparently use steroids more than hitters. Steroids increase run production some, but they do not greatly affect the integrity of the stadiums.

New technology can indeed give plenty of distance to amature and pro golfers. Fortunately, no technology can take the skill and the challenge out of putting.

I would love to know what Golf Blogger thinks.

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