Nick Schulz is the Editor of Tech Central Station and has worked in media circles and the ideas industry as a writer, editor, television producer and policy analyst. His writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Slate, The National Post of Canada, The Baltimore Sun, Investor's Business Daily, The Washington Times, National Review, Reason, Policy Review, and several other publications. He is also, it should be said, a rabid sports fan whose fandom is inversely proportional to his overall athletic ability.
Phil Mickelson shares some thoughts on how technology has changed golf:
... think we will start playing longer courses, because as distances have increased over 10 percent, that has not happened to the golf courses."That has to be music to Bob Hope Chrysler Classic officials’ ears as they plan to add longer golf courses to their event starting in 2006. But it also gives some credence to the idea that the 7,000-yard golf course, once the gold standard for championship golf, will soon be nothing but tarnished brass.
"A 7,000-yard golf course would have to be 7,700 yards (today) to be what it was years ago," Mickelson said.
More than some other sports -- like, say, tennis -- golf can more easily adapt to new technologies because the field of play isn't set.
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