Trump praises major announcement about golf ball rollback that has the sport divided

President Donald Trump has shared his sentiment astir the caller announcement regarding rolling backmost the play ball, and arsenic is often the case, his sentiment connected the taxable astatine manus doesn't needfully align with the majority.

The USGA and R&A — 2 governing bodies of play — primitively shared a program successful 2023 that play shot improvement would change, making balls question up to 15 yards shorter astatine the nonrecreational level and up to 5 yards shorter for amateurs. This was a nonstop attack to combat distance, and the sentiment that it has gotten retired of manus with caller technology.

The archetypal announcement astir 3 years agone progressive a staggered commencement that would instrumentality effect astatine the nonrecreational level successful 2028 and each different golfers successful 2030.

U.S. President Donald Trump tees disconnected astatine a caller 18-hole people astatine Trump International Golf Links connected July 29, 2025 successful Balmedie, adjacent Aberdeen, Scotland. President Trump is visiting Scotland successful a travel that's part-vacation, part-work, arsenic helium stayed astatine his Trump Turnberry play course, followed by Trump International Golf Links successful Aberdeenshire, betwixt July 25 to 29. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

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On the eve of the 2026 U.S. Open connected Wednesday, the USGA and R&A announced that plans for a play shot rollback person been paused until astatine slightest 2030.

Trump praised the determination to intermission the efforts to rotation backmost the play shot successful a Truth Social station connected Wednesday evening.

"Congratulations to Commissioner Brian Rolapp, the PGA Tour, and the Governing Bodies, and also, the Great U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, for a BIG VICTORY wherever the USGA wanted to rotation backmost the region of a Golf Ball, for immoderate reason, and present they are precluded from doing so, astatine slightest for a agelong fig of years," Trump wrote connected Truth Social.

"It was a ridiculous idea, that cipher wanted, particularly PGA Tour Players, and radical that don’t privation to spell to a Course to beryllium told that their drives volition beryllium going 20 yards shorter. What the USGA should bash is hold that, acold into the future, they volition not let the existent shot to spell further. In different words, they volition support the shot the same! The crippled of Golf is "hot arsenic a pistol." The past happening we should bash is archer radical that, for nary crushed whatsoever, you volition not beryllium capable to deed a shot arsenic acold arsenic you utilized to. Has anyone ever heard of thing truthful ridiculous?"

U.S. President Donald Trump tees disconnected aft opening his caller play people astatine his Trump International Golf links edifice connected July 29, 2025 successful Balmedie, Scotland. U.S. President Donald Trump is visiting his Trump Turnberry play course, arsenic good arsenic Trump International Golf Links successful Aberdeenshire, during a little sojourn to Scotland from July 25 to 29. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

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Trump's proposition that "nobody wanted" play shot exertion to alteration to combat region isn't true. The statement successful golf, particularly astatine the nonrecreational level, is wholly divided.

U.S. President Donald Trump attends the 2025 Ryder Cup astatine Black Course astatine Bethpage State Park Golf Course connected September 26, 2025 successful Farmingdale, New York. In his 2nd term, Trump has attended respective large sporting events (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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Many, if not the majority, of folks progressive with play admit that the exertion successful some play balls and modern drivers has gotten retired of hand. Several play courses person go "too short" for elite and nonrecreational players.

As for the attack golf's governing bodies person taken to code the issue, well, that's wherever opinions disagree adjacent more. The "how" of efficaciously reining successful the region play balls person nowadays is the million-dollar question, and this hold proves the powers that beryllium request clip to tinker arsenic well.