The survey is part of an effort by golf’s ruling bodies to understand how the global golf community feels about the current level of distance across all forms of golf.
Specifically, the proposal calls for a “minimum slope indication limit” that would allow green-reading books to continue to use numbers, lines, arrows or other indications to identify slopes on greens, but only in areas of 4 percent slope (2.29 degrees) or greater.
Like it or not, a sporting event is defined by its ending, and the 2018 Open Championship was like a movie that keeps you on tenterhooks for 90 minutes and then sputters through the conclusion.
Nothing captivates an audience quite like a late-round collapse, and the British Open has a knack for providing some of the more trainwreckian collapses in recent memory.