Storytelling beats snapshots
Read your article on suggesting spectators set their phones aside and “be in the present” at golf tournaments (“Tough cell,” March 16, GGP).
You are spot on, and this is not some old curmudgeon wanting to go back to the good old days. Camera phones are a valuable tool that can capture memories. We just need to be reminded that most of our best memories are in the storytelling and letting our own recollections create the color and images.
Limit the photos and video sharing and instead tell the story to your friends. They will enjoy that version much more and you make a deeper human connection as well.
Thank you for your perspective
Eric Lucy
Dubuque, Iowa
Ground rules for outstretched hands
It is annoying to witness a sea of phones go up the moment a player is in reasonable range of a gallery (“Tough cell,” March 16, GGP). I’ve had a perfect view of the action one minute only for outstretched hands to obscure it the next. Perhaps a compromise could be reached. You are allowed to use your phone to capture the action but only if, first, you wear your baseball cap the right way round and then immediately leave the course to allow true fans to watch play.
Deryck Hall
Birmingham, England
Phone ban would be ‘draconian’
Regarding the banning of cell phones at tournaments (“Tough cell,” March 16, GGP) – some of us need a phone for emergency purposes. I have a 99-year-old mother-in-law and may need to be readily accessible. I personally don’t use a camera for action shots, though I’d use it to photo friends and family and iconic holes. I think the ban is draconian. Just ask patrons for compliance.
Keith McIntyre
Statesboro, Georgia
Sisyphean stance
I agree (“Tough cell,” March 16, GGP) … but methinks you are Sisyphus pushing the proverbial rock up the hill time and again.
Bob Ferguson
Ravenel, South Carolina
Fan behavior at Players lacks class
I would like to address the fan behavior at the Players Championship. All the players who entered are members of the PGA Tour and have remained loyal by not jumping to LIV Golf. It’s not a Ryder Cup and fans should not be vocally rooting against a European player such as Matt Fitzpatrick. Root for your favorite but take the Ryder Cup out of the equation. All these players are supporting the PGA Tour, which is important. Have some class!
Doug Baker
Austin, Texas
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