Brooks Koepka’s response when asked if he wants to see a rule change on drivers

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Golf technology is threatening the well-being of the game.

Modern-day pros can hit the ball over 300 yards with ease, which is forcing the redevelopment of historic golf courses like St Andrews to keep up with increasing distances. The golf ball rollback aims to combat this, but there is plenty of skepticism about whether it will actually work.

The drivers that tour pros now use are so forgiving and advanced that even a poor strike will send the ball miles, and relatively straight. So instead of the golf ball being rolled back, do we need more regulation in the drivers that players can use?

That was put to Brooks Koepka before the US Open at Shinnecock Hills.

Brooks Koepka says if he wants to see driver head size regulated in pro golf

Koepka is not a fan of the bomb-and-gouge strategy that has taken over modern golf. He wants to see fairways in regulation, instead of players hitting it as far as they can and figuring it out from there.

The five-time major winner spoke about the ever-increasing distances off the tee in golf before the US Open: “It definitely has evolved, but I think it’s more of the athlete. I think guys are now bigger, faster, stronger.

“They’re able — yeah, technology plays a part in it, but when I was coming out, my generation maybe not, but the generation before it was find fairways and then figure it out from there. Then this young generation now is how far can you hit it and go — you just find it.

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“That’s how I was taught when I was younger is to find the fairway and never — it wasn’t always just about how far we hit it. You watch guys come out of college now, they’re all athletes. They’re all 6’4″, tall, lanky, long arms, big swing, and it creates a lot of power. 

“That’s, I think, a huge, huge thing when you look at the golfer from the ’70s, the ’80s, to the golfer that’s come out over the last ten years. I think there’s definitely a big difference in what the average guy looks like.”

The idea that the driver head size should be limited to make the club less forgiving, and Koepka responded, “It doesn’t matter to me. We’ve all got to deal with the same thing, so it doesn’t matter. Whatever they want to do, they can do.”