As most know, my current game limits me to watching golf and recouping from surgery. Really enjoying Shells World of Golf. Watching some of the greatest ball strikers and players. Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Bryon Nelson, Sam Sneed, and so on. Funny how much the game has changed. Watching Jack hit a six iron 169 yards, sweet and pure or Bryon so pure as he was, an 8 iron 140 yards. Those numbers should like some of us, or at least close for those of us in our 70's. Todays tour ball strikers are striping it way past these numbers and are hitting distances that simply amaze us mere mortals. Of course, in our minds, some feel we hit the ball as far and fast as the pros, but that is yet to be determined. ha..ha.. with respect. Is it the quipment or they in better condition. Also noted the difference in the course maintenance. Todays courses are so much more maintained, fairways faster, bunkers better and greens, much improved. I love to watch Sam and Bryon swing a club. I was blessed to see Sam Snead at an exhibition in Mt Pleasant at a club I belonged to in the late 80s. Sam could call his shot's distances with any club. Such magic and swings that most golfers would die for. Fawless. Maybe I can pickup a tip or two watching these old programs. And the distance they get with those old wooden head drivers. I love to see them use the old Texas wedge around the greens with such accuracy. Some call it Muni golf. Hey, call it what you want, but with practice, you can win a bet or two. The pros today rely more on their wedges. I always remember Trevino always saying, the quicker you can get the ball on the ground around the green, the better chance you will have of it going in. I don't see the legends puting a lot of backspin on their shots to the greens. Seem to hit rollup shots. The game has come a long way and who's to say which is better? Which ever one works best for you, as along as you work at it. Learn to manage you game and become a good ball striker. I got a lot of great tips from an old timer at our club when I started in 1984, who was in his mid 80s. I played with him every chance I got. A great ball striker, awesome short game and putter. A retired traveling salesman, golf hustler, who played golf up and down the Atlantic coast with the likes of Snead and Hogan. Said he won a few bucks. RIP Whitey.