Despite U.S. Open flop, Tiger feels "groovey"

How do you feel about the “imperial” decision that PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem made this week to outlaw U-shaped grooves on players’ golf irons, effective January 1, 2010?
Do you relish the spectacle of today’s top players having far more trouble spinning their balls from the rough onto the green than they ever did before?
Is it a given now that Tiger Woods will gain some sort of advantage on tour because he’s already accustomed to playing a softer Nike ball that tends to create more spin?
And does the “official” rules change which doesn’t apply to recreational golfers until 2020 convince you to make sure and (eventually) replace all your V-shaped groove irons with clubs that are PGA-compliant?
As an unflagging and unaffiliated Ping devotee: I toe the company line on this issue.
Ping chairman and CED John Solheim reported issued an 11th-hour plea to the PGA to at least stall the new groove standards for at least another year to allow players and manufacturers to better adjust. As a golfer who’s not even good enough to give much thought to the degree of spin I get out of my far-too-numerous shots from the rough, I tend to concur with the Golf Digest’s quoting of Ping pioneer Karsten Solheim, who “called U-grooves ‘a gift to golfers’.”
The face of golf, Tiger Woods, reportedly wore a Cheshire grin upon hearing about the ruling and told the press: “I think it’s great….we’ve had plenty of time to make our adjustments…I’ll have to make less adjustments than most.”
Granted, the PGA’s new equipment ruling should be kept in perspective. Bloomberg News cited a study that showed how casual golfers hit the green from 100-200 yards out less than 15 percent of the time, while elite players showed almost a 50-50 propensity for doing so.
As for me, there’ll be no rush to swap out my (Black Dot) Ping Zing irons. I just wonder how much, more or less, watching tour events will be next year when players have to increasingly alter their shots to match the courses they play.