Jack Nicklaus has been a constant critic of modern golf technology, harping about the golf ball’s power combined with driver faces the size of frying pans that produce force akin to a sumo wrestler jumping on a trampoline.
As recently as 2002, only one player on the PGA Tour averaged at least 300 yards per drive — John Daly at 306.8. That number jumped to eight players just one year later, all the way to 26 this year. There have been 17 drives of 400-plus yards this season on the PGA Tour.
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