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.
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 [...]
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@ 06:10
Most mobile phones already offer a silent mode, and in Japan a lot of mobile phones have an easy-activate setting called Manner Mode for trains and other public places.
I think that at this point, most people are aware of the need to turn off their ringers in movie theaters and offices. Simply educating golf spectators about the need to turn off their ringers and focus on the game should do the trick.
@ 13:29
Wonder if the answer is making the place a dead zone. Maybe someone needs to invent a thing that creates dead zones in certain places like schools and/or the Open rendering usage useless.