Taming the Big Guns

The HeraldDecember 20, 2005

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Rocket science has been brought into use at the home of golf to help make it more difficult for the world's leading players to reach for the stars.

The R&A, custodians of the integrity of the game, are using modified missiletracking equipment to keep a check on the stratospheric progress of golf balls, and have taken on Dr Steve Otto, a former Nasa scientist, to analyse the results at St Andrews. His research could help determine whether modern equipment is giving players too much help and devaluing their sporting skill, and may lead to changes in the rules on clubs.

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