If the Technology Is So Good, Why Is Golf Still So Damn Hard?

Esquire, April, 2000 by Chuck Stogel

YOU CAN STILL REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME you hit a metal wood. It was a Taylor Made. It was 1988, on a course Jack Nicklaus had just built in Orlando. The ball kept finding the fairway, and it went as far as you'd ever hit it, and you shot 78 and won all the money. You still have the club somewhere.

You remember the first time you hit the Killer Whale, too, that Wilson driver John Daly used to win the PGA Championship back in '91. It had the biggest damn head you'd ever seen, and it was white. You were taking range balls 260 out and over the fence at your little practice range.

Now there's an Orlimar driver in your bag. When you hit it right, you get 270 yards out of it--270 yards is enough for anyone.

This is the promise of technology. It's the promise that...

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