Ell Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 Can somebody please explain to me why the USGA is against Bryson using a compass during a tournament? Do they know what a compass is and what it does? It shows direction, N, S, E, W and combinations thereof. It doesn't show DISTANCE, SLOPE OF THE GROUND, SPEED OF THE PUTTING SURFACE or WIND SPEED. Bryson is a science nerd. He's into the physics of the golf game. So what? I guess the brain trust at the USGA were never in the Scouts. Quote Driver: Tommy Armour Atomic, 10.5, Senior Shaft 3 Wood: Cleveland FL, senior graphite shaft. Adams Idea A12 OS, 3,4,5,6 hybrids, 7 - sand wedge. Senior flex graphite shafts Ping Answer putter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cnosil Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 Can somebody please explain to me why the USGA is against Bryson using a compass during a tournament? Do they know what a compass is and what it does? It shows direction, N, S, E, W and combinations thereof. It doesn't show DISTANCE, SLOPE OF THE GROUND, SPEED OF THE PUTTING SURFACE or WIND SPEED. Bryson is a science nerd. He's into the physics of the golf game. So what? I guess the brain trust at the USGA were never in the Scouts.Wind calculations. He probably has the wind direction from a weather service and while he can have hole orientation is his book, a compass would be more precise. A wind coming from 45* would have less impact than a head on wind. Quote Driver: G400 Max 9* w/ KBS Tour Driven Fairway: TS3 15* w/Project X Hzardous Smoke Hybrids: 915H 21* w/KBS Tour Graphite Hybrid Prototype 915H 24* w/KBS Tour Graphite Hybrid Prototype Irons: TR20V 6-11 w/Vizard TR20-85 Graphite Wedge: 54/12D, 60/8M w/:Accra iWedge 90 Graphite Putter: Sacks Parente MC 3 Stripe Backup Putters: Milled Collection RSX 2, mFGP2, Futura 5W, TM-180 Member: MGS Hitsquad since 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveP043 Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 20 minutes ago, Ell said: Can somebody please explain to me why the USGA is against Bryson using a compass during a tournament? Do they know what a compass is and what it does? It shows direction, N, S, E, W and combinations thereof. It doesn't show DISTANCE, SLOPE OF THE GROUND, SPEED OF THE PUTTING SURFACE or WIND SPEED. Bryson is a science nerd. He's into the physics of the golf game. So what? I guess the brain trust at the USGA were never in the Scouts. He was not using a magnetic compass, he was using a drawing compass. As such, the compass was deemed to be "unusual equipment" in 2018, nearly 3 years ago. He can use the compass to measure distances and/or draw circles in his yardage and green-reading books to measure things more precisely than otherwise would be possible. And that's using unusual equipment. But this was 3 years ago, why is it an issue now? RickyBobby_PR, silver & black and cnosil 3 Quote Irons Titleist T200, AMT Red stiff Rogue SubZero, GD YS-Six X T22 54 and 58 wedges 7-wood 5-wood B60 G5i putter Right handed Reston, Virginia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cnosil Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 4 hours ago, DaveP043 said: He was not using a magnetic compass, he was using a drawing compass. As such, the compass was deemed to be "unusual equipment" in 2018, nearly 3 years ago. He can use the compass to measure distances and/or draw circles in his yardage and green-reading books to measure things more precisely than otherwise would be possible. And that's using unusual equipment. But this was 3 years ago, why is it an issue now? Yep, that was it Quote Driver: G400 Max 9* w/ KBS Tour Driven Fairway: TS3 15* w/Project X Hzardous Smoke Hybrids: 915H 21* w/KBS Tour Graphite Hybrid Prototype 915H 24* w/KBS Tour Graphite Hybrid Prototype Irons: TR20V 6-11 w/Vizard TR20-85 Graphite Wedge: 54/12D, 60/8M w/:Accra iWedge 90 Graphite Putter: Sacks Parente MC 3 Stripe Backup Putters: Milled Collection RSX 2, mFGP2, Futura 5W, TM-180 Member: MGS Hitsquad since 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slypanther Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 How can use of a drawing compass be different than most yardage books that have that as a integral feature reprinted? If he makes the drawing prior to the start of the tourney, it is no different than markers that are off the fairway in the "just in case" yardages in a yardage book. Please inform me of what the actual implications are as I have several homemade yardage books with years of information on courses I play or have played. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cnosil Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 3 hours ago, Slypanther said: How can use of a drawing compass be different than most yardage books that have that as a integral feature reprinted? If he makes the drawing prior to the start of the tourney, it is no different than markers that are off the fairway in the "just in case" yardages in a yardage book. Please inform me of what the actual implications are as I have several homemade yardage books with years of information on courses I play or have played. Yardage markers on the course give you distances to a specific point (front of the green at tour events). Players then calculate then calculate the distance to the pin location. In most instances the yardage marker, the spot the distance was measured to, and the hole are not in a straight ling. I also doubt the distance arcs you put in your book are done at a granularity of 1 yard. As a result the more you are off from that straight line the longer your distance gets. Think of the hypotenuse of a triangle as the sides get longer or shorter so does the hypotenuse but not by the same amount. knowing the scale in your yardage book will enable him to get an exact distance. Quote Driver: G400 Max 9* w/ KBS Tour Driven Fairway: TS3 15* w/Project X Hzardous Smoke Hybrids: 915H 21* w/KBS Tour Graphite Hybrid Prototype 915H 24* w/KBS Tour Graphite Hybrid Prototype Irons: TR20V 6-11 w/Vizard TR20-85 Graphite Wedge: 54/12D, 60/8M w/:Accra iWedge 90 Graphite Putter: Sacks Parente MC 3 Stripe Backup Putters: Milled Collection RSX 2, mFGP2, Futura 5W, TM-180 Member: MGS Hitsquad since 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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