SOUTHPORT, England The R&A had its annual eve of The Open news conference Wednesday at Royal Birkdale and chief executive Martin Slumbers commented on numerous topics ranging from anchored putters to distance to drug testing to The Opens place in the major championship schedule.As GolfChannel.com reported on Tuesday, The R&A quickly instituted internal out of bounds right of the ninth fairway when they were asked if a player would be permitted to blow a tee shot into the 10th fairway from the ninth tee, which would cut off about 40-50 yards on the approach shot. To do so, a player would need to fly his shot over a grandstand.Now the great thing about links golf is you can play a hole in multiple ways, and thats one of the beauties of it, Slumbers said. But in this particular case weve been out there with our health and safety people and we felt that was just dangerous.Slumbers said it was Jason Days caddie, Colin Swatton, who first brought the potential situation to his attention.
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Heres a smattering of Slumbers thoughts on other topics:On the anchoring debate: The discussion around the methodology of the relevant players weve been talking about has been looked at extremely carefully by our governance people and our rules officials, as well as our colleagues in the United States and on the Tour. We are all very comfortable the rule is being abided by for those players.We have no intention of revising that rule.On the Royal Birkdale setup taking driver out of many players hands: The great thing about links golf, as many of you know, if youre as much an aficionado of this game as I am, course management is one of the most important things about links golf. Its pretty firm out there. Its running hard. The rough, if you run out in the wrong direction, can be pretty penal. And certainly the conversations Ive had with players is that they are really enjoying the challenge of trying to work at how to get the ball in the right place.On monitoring distance gains: I spend a lot of my time and the R&As time looking at distance. We are very focused on setting it up in two ways, one is around transparency, which is what we did two years ago. The second thing that Im looking at and spend probably as much time doing it is this balance between skill and technology, and whether how much the technology and skill, are they in balance, is it good for the recreational game? Is it the same for the elite game?Thoughts on The Open being the fourth major of the year if the PGA Championship ultimately moves to May: I think from our perspective I dont really mind whether were the third major or the fourth major. We try to do our very best with The Open Championship to make it as good as we possibly can do. I can absolutely understand some of the logic, and if it ends up resulting in more people watching our game, then thats a great outcome.Regarding the PGA Tours move to start blood testing later this year: As some of you know the European Tour are responsible to us for doing anti-doping testing here at The Open Championship. And our feeling is that we would like to move to the PGA Tour-type policy for next years Open Championship.On the R&As decision to pay prize money this year in U.S. dollars: We want to make sure that the prize money for The Open Championship is commensurate with its status in the world of golf, and so we always look at that number and have done that for years And so on balance we decided that in this global business that is golf, dollars is the main currency, so were switching to dollars and we wont have to worry about [foreign exchange rates] moving around there in future years.
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