The USGA and the R&A should have delivered their new distance report to media on Monday by carrier pigeon.
Or pony express.
Or smoke signals.
The report’s finding that last year’s “deviation” in driving distance is “unusual and concerning” and breaks from the “slow creep” indicated in the two previous years suggests the governing bodies might be on their way to concluding the ball is flying too far for the good of the game.
Some big names are wondering what took so damn long.
“I’ve only been yelling at you for 40 years,” Nicklaus told USGA executive director Mike Davis over dinner a couple weeks ago when Davis laid out his organization’s intent to address the game’s distance explosion.