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The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

Rollback Is (Reportedly) Coming—Let's Discuss

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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Golf, Sports

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Don't call it an "emergency pod": Andy and Garrett throw out their plans for the week and sit down to discuss the late-breaking news that the USGA and R&A will soon announce a future universal rollback of the golf ball . Andy and Garrett talk about the events that have led to this juncture and address a number of common concerns, misapprehensions, and points of debate around the issue.

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0:00.0

I'm already upset when I find my ball in the bunker I'm really upset and when I find my ball in a fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg lie I'm about ready to run off the golf course Welcome. Welcome back to another edition of the Friday Golf Podcast. I'm your host Andy Johnson.

0:40.0

There was huge news over the weekend and golf obviously came from a golf digest report that broke that the US GA and RNA are going to be instituting a universal ball rollback for everyone. So with that in mind I decided

0:57.5

to chat with our own Garrett Morrison, a co-host of this podcast, and really dive in to everything about the rollback.

1:05.7

Obviously, we have not heard from the USGA yet on this.

1:10.3

The report clearly came from some equipment companies that have been notified.

1:15.0

So when we hear from the USJ and get all the details, I would guess that we will have another episode.

1:21.5

But we go in great detail on on everything here. It's a crazy

1:26.1

weekend with people like Tiger Woods and Rory McElroy sounding off on their

1:31.8

opinions as well as some others such as you know

1:34.9

Keegan Bradley calling the the rollback monstrous and and Ricky Fowler on the other side of the rollback saying it was such a bad decision.

1:46.2

So Garrett and I dive into it, why this happened and what we expect from it.

1:51.8

So without further ado, here's our discussion

1:54.6

on the ball rollback.

2:00.0

Garrett, we're back.

2:01.2

I guess this was really unplanned. I didn't think this was going to be Tuesday's episode, but of course, I think the big news over the weekend caught everybody off guard. Probably the USGA and RNA included.

2:14.0

The Golf Digest, Mike Staccura, basically broke the news that there was a,

2:20.3

there's an impending rollback to everybody in the game of golf.

2:23.8

They are going to cut distances by about 5%.

2:26.7

Starting for the professionals in 2028

2:30.2

and everybody in 2030.

2:31.8

So we are talking about news that is. and everybody

2:33.2

news that is five years out at the earliest I guess four for right yeah four years out for years out

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