Golf Smarter Premium number 580, published on February 21, 2017.

Not Attached to Outcome.

NATO Golf, using the clear key method with Mel Sol.

This is Golf Smarter Premium.

Here's your host, Fred Green.

Welcome to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Mel.

Thank you very much, Fred. I'm happy to be here.

You know, I was looking over your bio, and I noticed that you had the opportunity to play on the South African PGA tour for almost a decade.

Or was that just over a decade?

Yeah, just from 69 to 79, so about a decade, yeah.

Is golf radically different today than it was during the 70s?

For the professional golfer, definitely.

For the amateur, no, about the same.

I think amateurs, you know, that have jobs and have only play recreationally,

I think that's pretty much stayed the same over the years.

Of course, the equipment has changed dramatically, but golfers, I think, still play once or twice a week and still have a great time.

Why is it different for the – that's so interesting.

You know, the PGA is like, we will never make rules that separate, you know, the pros from the amateurs.

Well, everybody has to play the same rules.

And here you say that golf today is different for the players on tour than it is for the

amateur player.

Explain that for me.

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