Robo-Golfer in the Year 2020

In the year 2020, when we might see 9,000-yard golf courses and greens as slick as ice, golfers who want to excel will undergo training specifically designed to combine all three swing types into one. Much as you now select a club, Robo-Golfer© will select a swing. When Robo needs to hit it long with hook spin for added distance, he'll use the Arc swing; when he needs an accurate drive with medium length, he'll use the Leverage swing. Faced with a dogleg that bends left to right, it's the muscular-advantage Width power fade. 

This golfing trinity sounds impossible only because no one has ever been taught, trained and conditioned that way.  But I’m predicting that this can and will be done. Remember that to run less than a four-minute mile was at one time considered impossible. In the last Olympics, however, the women's winning 100-meter dash time would have won the 1944 men's dash event. Basically, things change, and they change in a hurry.

The 21st century will see bigger and stronger athletes enhanced by perfectly designed physical-fitness programs and perfectly fit equipment, so that some day there'll be a player using all three swing types who can drive the ball 400 yards with pinpoint accuracy, stiff his irons and putt like a pool player running the rack.

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