Our, meaning the recreational golfers, opinion is meaningless to the USGA/R&A. We don't have a trade association/union, so to speak, voicing our opinion in one voice. We are just individuals offering comments and they don't care what we have to say. Individually we have no influence, even though without us there would literally be no golf. It's nice for a discussion but as far as having any real effect on their decisions they don't give a rat's azz what any of us think, nor do they care...It's the golf ball today, tomorrow it will the game improvement woods and irons...The only way to get them to listen to the 99% of golfers who actually keep the game rolling in the money is to stop buying what they try to sell us.