ORIGINAL: GMMAT
What would have Jack N. done with the today's Golf Club and balls?
I'm not sure how this applies. Everyone in Jack's era was using similar equipment.
Are you asking how many course/tournament records he would hold (score-wise)? Golf has kept up to a degree with lengthening golf courses to keep up with innovations in technology. They're not playing the same courses they used to play....and anyone in the golf "know" is aware of this fact.
As far as I know.....P&Y hasn't increased their standards for record book entry to keep up with modern day "innovations" (QDM programs; nutrition technology; etc...). If anything.....they've dumbed-down the standards (let-off rules).
Jeff, I don't want to turn this into a golf discussion, but lengthening the courses a bit has not compensated for the advances in technology. There is only so much land to lengthen by and there is no way you could hit the same shot with an old steel shafted wood head driver as you can with a 500cc titanium with a Grafalloy shaft. I think it is a very fair comparison to trad vs. compound.
As far as the deer record books, my view is that there will be and has been an increase in the number of low to mid-level qualifying bucks that are shot and submitted (125"-170"), but when you start talking about 180"+ animals that is special regardless of what is going on. Once you get into 200"+ especially typical, that is absolutely world class. It will still be a special deer that breaks the records. So I don't see the records as being tainted (unless Barry Bonds or Roger Clemens get them
).