I am even more of an amateur than you. Listening to golf commentators on TV, distance control is everything. The first step to distance control is knowing the distance you want the ball to go. The second step is hitting it correctly with the correct club (also controls the bearing angle of the shot which should be "on target"). As an engineer, I could be a complete expert at the first and a complete failure at the second. Oh wait, I am. I think the roughly 9% difference is worse than the accuracy pros hope for. It would not impact my game. --- On Tue, 9/8/09, Stephen Humphreys <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Stephen Humphreys <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:45770] RE: Yardage book in meters?? To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 8:00 AM #yiv1795704852 .hmmessage P { margin:0px;padding:0px;} #yiv1795704852 { font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;} Is a yard and a meter so different that it affects the game? That's a genuine question - as an occassional weekend player and very much on the amateur side I really would not know but I would have thought it would not make a difference. Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 04:04:53 -0700 From: [email protected] Subject: [USMA:45769] Yardage book in meters?? To: [email protected] The only memorable quote in this golf story: http://www.nwaonline.net/articles/2009/09/07/golf/090809lpganotebk.txt A new yardage book even had to be made for Verchenova on Monday because she didn't understand the yardages — she wanted the lengths in meters. "I looked at my yardage book and I was all confused, I only understand the metric system," Verchenova said. Will an influx of foreign players force US pro golf to at least be "dual?" What do US players do in foreign competition? Use Hotmail to send and receive mail from your different email accounts. Find out how.
