US Open Champ claims that most PGA Tour Pro Test Driver Test

PGA Tour’s driver testing is intended to help secure an equal playing field, but most of the best find ways to get it around it.

Said so ex We open sample Lucas Glover This week, turning the temperature into an already hot topic.

In extensive remarks on his Siriusxm PGA Tour Radio Show, Glover emphasized a gap emptiness in the test protocols that he believes are too porous to start because they only require to try 30 drivers each week.

Not only are those tests very limited, Glover said, but many players cheat the system.

“I have tried to think all the morning and all day how to say this without sounding like it was healthy, but most boys do not give them their real driver anyway,” Glover offered when his co-worker, Taylor Zarzour, asked why the test was not performed throughout the table. “They give them their reservation just in case. No, it’s true. And testing is just as it is, why, and again, I know many boys, they hold two drivers in their bag just in case.” Hey, oh, yes, it’s that. It is here. Yes, do this, try this, try this. “

Driver testing is nothing new. But its importance came in sharp relief in last week PGA championshipwhere reliable reports appeared it Rory Mcilroy had been forced to come a new driver in the game as his great winner masters were found to be no longer permissible. “Why the Mcilroy Club may have failed inspection is unknown. The test results are kept confidential. But it is not uncommon for the driver’s faces to degrade over time, especially when a cooker Repeat, change can push his spring to the legal limit. won the PGA Championshipdiscovered that His driver also failed to test Before the start of the week.

At the PGA championship, Mcilroy played the same make -up and Taylormade driver model he used to lower Augusta down in size. But he fought outside Tee in Quail Hollow. For Glover, this variance underlined one point: no two drivers are exactly the same.

“I was told a long time ago, golf clubs are actually as snow,” he said. “They can read the same. They can look alike. They can fall the same way out of heaven. They can build them exactly on the trailer, but they are snow.

As it happens, Glover said his driver had also been tested in Quail Hollow. Passed.

“I don’t hit as far as I dilute a face,” he said. “But mine was fine.”

If his driver had failed, Glover said, “I would have been destroyed.” Changing leaders – even drivers of the same model and model – can be a harsh adjustment.

That is why he felt for Mcilroy in Quail Hollow. Glover said he would fall balls in the rank alongside the champion of the Masters Masters Masters on Tuesday of the PGA Championship without knowing the Rory club test issues.

“And then I learned a few days later, the next day, whatever, which was a completely new driver,” Glover said. “And I said, Wow, it is noticeable for him because you have to direct it, really, really good. And obviously, coming out of the masters and coming out to play greatly throughout the winter, all spring, and you have to do it. Yes, I was like, man, that’s hard.”

Bad holidays are part of golf, of course. But they don’t have to be part of the club’s test, Glover said. His solution? Do the comprehensive test and close the gaps. This, Glover said, should start in degrees by applying uniform test requirements to the four major events that unite players from a broken game.

“(I) Matura, I realized that we are not all playing under the same umbrella in these degrees unless we’ve all tried them,” Glover said. “So we’ve got Livi boys, we’ve got other tour boys, we got thousands of different players and tours represented in the four biggest tours of the year. So why not everyone will be tested in every major? And why don’t we try to make sure it’s the driver used?”

If large equipment companies and large golf organizations have to spend a little more, they will be.

“If it costs too much dollars, great. Let’s do it,” Glover said. All these organizations received a lot. Look at the tents they build each week. If we are in an equal field of the game, and the four biggest events will bring all these people together and all these tours, let us make sure we are playing under the same rules. “