00:00I believe the ball should be cut back 60 yards, only for professional golf.
00:04Let's leave amateur golf as it is.
00:06They're the heart of the game.
00:07The professional golf is not.
00:09But in regards to professional golf, cut the ball back 60 yards.
00:12It's a tragedy.
00:14We've got away from the concept of golf when it started originally.
00:18A par 5, a par 4, and a par 3.
00:20There is no such thing as a par 5 in the world today.
00:23We saw Rory hit a 7-iron last year when he won the Masters.
00:27They're hitting 8-irons and 7-irons to par 5s.
00:31Now, I remember Jack, who was as long as anybody playing golf today other than DeChamro,
00:37that the third hole is vivid in my mind.
00:39He used to drive in a wedge.
00:41Now they drive over the green.
00:43So we're in our infancy.
00:45We've never had a big man play golf of note.
00:48Wait until LeBron James comes out, Michael Jordan.
00:52And they are because incentivization is so great.
00:55There's so much money that people around the world are exercising and going to the gym,
01:01which originally I was criticized and condemned for doing that.
01:04They're lifting weights now.
01:06They'll drive the first green here very easily.
01:09They're going to be driving many, many par 4s.
01:12So where are we going?
01:14And now, but here's the crucial thing.
01:17The amount of money that we're spending around the world probably relates to $100 million.
01:22Whatever the figure is, it's exorbitant.
01:25They're putting that money into making golf courses longer.
01:28We're running out of water in the world.
01:31It's fertilization.
01:32Machinery is so expensive.
01:34Labor, oil, whatever costs you want to put in there.
01:38Where are we going?
01:39That money is being wasted.
01:41Or if they cut the ball back, we don't have to make these changes.
01:45Look what they've done here.
01:46It's amazing when you think what this golf course used to play and what it plays now.
01:51That money could be allocated to African-American areas where they need to be able to play golf
01:57and encourage them to play golf for schools, for hospitals.
02:01We're just wasting the money.
02:02That's the crucial thing for me.
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