>>63123813Indeed. Greg Norman (although a choker) was far and away the best ball striker on Tour. And then metal heads and such were introduced and seemingly overnight, the field caught up to him.
>With, however, the advent of the TaylorMade "metal-wood" and other golf-ball and golf-club technologies such as the variable-face depth driver, Norman's dominance was significantly diminished: the new technology enabled less precise ball-strikers to achieve equal or better accuracy and distance. In 1991, Norman was the second-longest driver on the PGA Tour's driving distance statistics;[69] six years later, in 1997, he was tied for 75th place.[70]