I guess I need to return all my NFAA 20 pins and bowhunter freestyle tournament trophies because I won them back when pin guards were against the rules, and there were no round pin guards even if they had been legal. No way I could've shot well enough to earn them without a round pin guard. [8D]
Nobody's suggesting your way hasn't been done....or isn't effective. All we're trying to say is....there's more than one way to skin a cat. The USGA records with the gutta percha ball are still valid, too......
.....and facemasks in the NFL have "caught on".