Okay they added some length.
They added a LOT of length. Check Augusta National Circa 1965 v. 2008
So your telling me that todays pros are approaching the greens with the same clubs the Trevino's and Nicklaus's used?
Yes. Look at the field as a whole. The Tigers and Jacks of their respective eras are anomolies.
Are you telling me Square Grooves and better balls have not increased the play-ability of shots. (Drop and Stop).
See....."they've added length". Also....note the green makeups of todays courses v. Jack's era. When Mr. McKenzie designed Augusta.....do you think he ever dreamed they'd get them running 14 on the stimp?
Your saying new equipment is not more forgiving?
See "they've added length". It NEEDS to be more forgiving. Why do you think they added length?
Is hitting in the rough in a non major as much of a penalty as those days?
In Jack's era.....he didn't have to deal witht he roughs we have, today. Check into how many open type courses were irrigating their roughs in Jack's era.
the course setups have kept up with technology.....and they keep adjusting, even today.
So the new equipments benefits have effectively been neutralized by adding some length?
Yes.
WOW I knew you said you didn't play anymore, I just didn't realize you had lost touch with the sport to this magnatude.
A seven iron out of the rough with a square grooved, perimeter weighted iron ....to an undulated bentgrass green.....running 14 on the stimp......is one HELLUVA adjustment to the leaps made in technology. When you look at what the TOUR is doing.....v. what YOU are doing on your muni course that has NOT kept up with technology.....you see that this is true.