For the second year, the granddaddy of golf tournaments is excluding the usually ubiquitous symbol of the new tech times. Is this insufferable stuffiness or a leadership move toward being smart about keeping the mob focused on the golf they came to see? I think the latter is true. At least a couple of great golfers agree:
“It’s much better,” said Sergio Garcia during last year’s event. “I haven’t heard one phone out there. It’s definitely an improvement.”
Tiger Woods echoed Garcia’s comments at Carnoustie, calling the ban “fantastic”, and adding that the regular disruptions caused by spectators’ mobiles at Hoylake in 2006 had disappeared.
An interesting question for sporting events, and schools, is how to keep the mobiles from interfering when they are a problem for what is going on without collecting the devices at the gate. Maybe mobiles will be equipped with a “don’t bother anybody” mode in the future.
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