Graeme McDowell: Regulations limiting distance inevitable

Golf's governing bodies want to break the 'ever-increasing cycle of hitting distance'

Graeme McDowell: Do you want to play the Open at St Andrews and have it absolutely ridiculed? It would be very disappointing. Picture: Niall Carson

Graeme McDowell believes changes to equipment regulations to limit the distance professionals hit the ball are a case of "when, not if".

But the former US Open champion feels manufacturers will use their "very deep war chests" to fight any changes brought in by the R&A and USGA in the wake of their Distance Insights Project (DIP).