I’ve said before that golf will never be taken seriously as a “sport” (although it was for a brief period during the height of the Tiger Woods era) because it doesn’t follow the same athletic principles.
All other sports advance technique from one age to the next, and they don’t regress.
Golf, on the other hand, has regressed so much in swing mechanics that a 60-year old Tom Watson nearly won the Open Championship in 2009.
