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Tiger Woods discusses the new rule in professional golf to decrease distances. He suggests a middle ground, making small changes to equipment while also redesigning courses to maintain tradition and innovation. Woods proposes regulations on equipment and building more complex courses with water hazards, sand traps, and tighter fairways. The goal is to shift focus back to player skill and technique. The PGA should consider this middle ground to balance tradition and technology. Good afternoon, golf lovers. Welcome back to Digest Golf. I'm your host, Ian Wallace. Now, today I have a very special guest with me. He is well-renowned throughout the world, especially in the golf world. Everybody welcome, Tiger Woods. Thank you, Ian. It's a pleasure being here today. Tiger, it's a pleasure having you. Now, today I want to discuss the implementation of the big new rule going around about redesigning golf balls and other equipment for professional golfers to decrease distances in order to keep the old traditional golf. Yeah, Ian, so when I first started on the PGA Tour, I was playing with what seemed like crappy balls and old clubs back then, but it was the newest and best thing we were playing with. And as I progressed through the time I played on tour, the technology just kept getting better and better. And so with that, they started hitting the ball for me. Many players started going to the gym and then hitting the ball even further. So this made it to where many golf courses became too short in distance because of all of the new and further distances from the tour players. So Tiger, what do you think about this new rule? I think there should be a middle ground to the rule. I think that there should be new regulations to make small changes to equipment to not completely take away the progress they've made from training to reach those distances, to take away just a little bit. But they also should redesign courses to make them more difficult, you know, to make a balance out of tradition and innovation. So Tiger, what do you think are some ways that the PGA Tour can do to keep the tradition but also keep up with booming technology? Well, like I just said, what I would do is make the equipment specification regulations so that player focus can shift back more towards the skill and technique of the players rather than the capabilities of the equipment they use to keep the ongoing tradition aspect of golf alive. I would say this includes both, you know, clubs and golf balls. I think I would also try to redesign or build more courses because with new technology, many players are going to find different ways to make courses easier. So I think that more complex courses need to be made. You know, for example, we could put in more water hazards, more sand traps, you know, tighter fairways, hillier courses. I could go on. Now, Tiger, I'm thinking the same thing. So finally, so yeah, final takeaway for what we just talked about, what will it be? I think the PGA should consider a middle ground for the announcement of the rule by making regulations regarding equipment and also the input of harder and more complex courses so that golf can keep its long tradition but also keep up with technology. You need it here, folks. Thank you for tuning in to another episode of Digest Golf. Thank you, Tiger, for giving up some of your time to be on the show. It's always been a pleasure, Ian. On our next show, I will have another special guest, so make sure to follow up. I'm your host, Ian Wallace, and I'll see you next time.