How significant was Annika Sorenstam playing at the Colonial?
Annika created an enormous amount of interest among young girls, which, I think, will have a positive impact of just raising the profile of this sport to young girls and get them focused on it. Q. This year you are going to have the capabilities of testing drivers. How will that work? Is it strictly a volunteer thing, and how do you think that will play out? It’s not strictly a volunteer thing, but it is voluntary in the sense that it’s very similar to what has happened over the years. Whether it be the golf ball or square grooves or the configuration of a putter, all of these things are regulated by the rules of golf. And it has been up to the competitor to take steps to make sure that he or she is using equipment that comports with the rules of golf. The difference in the driver, up until now, has been that there isn’t any way to easily look at or test a driver from the standpoint of the limits of spring-like effect. Until now you have had to actually disassemble the driver so it’s v
