There’s been a lot of discussion lately about the announced golf ball rollback that will decrease the distance one is able to attain.

What hasn’t been discussed, and this is my personal prediction, is that golf swing injuries will likely increase with swingers going after the ball even harder than they have been, to try to retain their current distances.

That is something you don’t have to experience, and I’m betting that a Modern Golf Swinger who switches to a mechanically-sound swing will not only retain their current distances, they may actually increase them while simultaneously drastically reducing their risk of swing injuries.

This golf ball rollback (and any subsequent reducing of potential distances by changing club/ball specs) could be the “irresistible force meeting an immovable object” moment where a possible future injury crisis either cripples the sport (American football for example is declining in youth participation due to the fear of concussion injuries) or forces a reckoning among said participants.

Just as many parents are asking, “why should my child be risking permanent brain injuries to play a sport?” they could be very soon be asking, “why should my child risk permanent and possible life-altering back or joint injuries to play golf today?”

Money talks, and it is the reason the Modern Golf Swing ever gained traction to begin with – a harder to learn golf swing method that kept most of the public unable to really reach their golfing potential while spending ever more money on instruction and equipment has been a gold mine for the industry the past 30-40 years.

If participation declines even further than it has been in recent years, and those participating are falling left and right with swing injuries, there is your ready-made crisis forcing change.

The change is and should be simple – a mechanically-sound golf swing will gain you maximum distance with minimum injury risk.

It is, and always has been this formula.

I am hoping, though not willing to bet the house on it, that this rollback will begin the process by which people begin to seek out the proper way to swing a golf club, and by that I mean the Classic Golf Swing model.

One can hope.

In the meantime, my sympathies go out to those who have already been and who are in future going to be injured swinging a golf club for no other reason than they haven’t been taught a mechanically-sound golf swing model.