Dear Parker, Golf courses are measured in metres in Australia, but sad to say, the constant pressure of media reports from higher paying golf competitions in the USA has the tendency to dumb down distances to yards in the golfing fraternity's vocabulary here in our media.
This has the tendency to provide a culture that supports the use of old pre-metric words. In his plan for effective change management John P Kotter of Harvard lists cultural change as his final essential part of any change process. You might recall that Margaret Thatcher in the UK was able to effectively stop progress in that nation simply by encouraging the continued use of the two words: miles and pints. Cheers, Pat Naughtin Geelong, Australia On 2011/06/21, at 02:45 , Parker Willey Jr. wrote: > > I think this might have been brought up before but I have a question. > > In the United States, golf course distances are still measured in yards. > > How are golf course distances measured in UK, Canada, Australia, etc. > If everybody else measures in meters, then, maybe we should make a case for > changing this in the USA. > > ...Parker Pat Naughtin LCAMS Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, see http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html Hear Pat speak at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lshRAPvPZY PO Box 305 Belmont 3216, Geelong, Australia Phone: 61 3 5241 2008 Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com for more metrication information, contact Pat at [email protected] or to get the free 'Metrication matters' newsletter go to: http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter to subscribe.
