DUBLIN, Ohio — An issue that nobody paid much attention to or even knew much about became controversial not only because it involved one of the game’s most popular and successful players but due to the lack of transparency that surrounded it.
Golf has a way of needlessly harming itself like this. And the “driver testing” story that came to light at the PGA Championship—it was confidential information that was leaked to a news outlet, SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio—that Rory McIlroy’s driver was deemed non-conforming after random testing is the perfect example of so much needless hand-wringing.
