Orlando, Florida – slow pace playing PGA and LPGA for years, loved players, fans and broadcasters alike. I reached almost a collapse point last week in the Farmers Insurance Open in San Diego, where CBS SPORTS ‘DOTTIE Pepper expressed her frustration About the final group that needs three hours to complete nine holes.
“We are beginning to need a new word to talk about the pace of the game of play, and this is respect,” Bieber said on the broadcast.
“Respect for your fellow competitors, to the masses, to broadcast, for all of this. You must improve.”
Harris English, Andrew Novak and Aldrich Potgieter are not in itself but more about everyone playing in the last round. Each group played at an ice pace, and the final round turned into a slide. It was difficult to watch.
On Wednesday, the PGA tour announced that it had gathered a business squad Investigating the pace casesAccording to Ferguson Associated Press. One of the possible solutions is to allow the range messages in all the events of the round, but only PGA starring Players are allowed to use distance measuring devices.
but The main winner 10 times Annika SornsamA quick player himself says, this idea will cause more harm than it is useful.
[Rangefinders] You will slow it down because you want to check the number now. Did you pay the button correctly? Did you hit the flag, or did the tree hit it behind, or did I hit a column behind the green color? “Sornsam said to SB nation.
“Caddies always wants to get the Earth’s imports because this is what they are doing. I don’t think [rangefinders] They will help. It is the issue of keeping up with the group forward and spending a certain time. As you know, Ajga is doing a good job. When you play, reach the 4th hole, you should be in one hour, then after 8 holes, you may need to be in two hours. We have to pay it. If they do not want to do this, the field reduces the other. “
In November, the PGA tour announced a set of changes for the 2026 season, which is what It includes shrinking field sizes. The tour felt that eliminating sites in the fields would help officials in space in starting times, thus improving the pace of play.
However, the real issue is that the PGA and LPGA tour does not implement anyone who violates the pace of playing policies.
“The players want to rhythm, Caddies want to rhythm, the championships want to rhythm, and the fans not just want to stand there.”
“It must be treated. There should be a kind of branching or something that is affected, like, you know what, I will not do it again.”
Then Sorenstam provided a great likeness. She said that slow playing of the police should be like a child touching a hot stove. Once their hands feel burned, they learn not to touch it again.
You feel that the PGA and LPGA tour should follow this hypothesis.
“The way they are going on today, there is a warning, then there is a timing – that process, number one, very long, skip a step. If you are late, a player you see, it is not as if you were heer there, you see that,” said Sorenstam.
“[Officials] You should say, “Well, you have gained time.” After that, from there, there should not be another step, and it should not be a fine. It should hurt more. A stroke, two strokes, all it takes. There may be a kind of comment on the road or something like that, and it is clear that if it continues, you may want to think about the eligibility of the player.
“This is not good for the tour.”
Something should be done.
Even the Sorenstam tour on the Hilton Grand Facards of Champions, which includes 32 LPGA and 51 famous amateurs, took longer than necessary. I played side by side World No. 1 Nelly Corda The former MLB Lowe, two players who played the ball for a long time and play quickly. This group did not play slowly, but it affected everyone.
But at the end of the day, as Bieber said in Tori Pines, it is a matter of respect. Something should be done, and the implementation of Rangefinder is similar to the slap the arms of weapons on a gunshot. It will not help.
Jack Milko is a golf team writer to play SB NATA through. Follow it on x @jack_milko.
