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The Golf Today roundtable discusses whether the PGA Tour has a serious problem on its hand with the slow pace of play in golf, and how the issue can be fixed moving forward. #GolfChannel #GolfToday
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Roundtable: Assessing the severity of slow play on the PGA Tour | Golf Today | Golf Channel
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Until someone is DQ’d in the middle of their round, nothing will happen.
We see this on the golf courses every where especially municipals and majority don't enforce.
The LPGA has a hard and fast rule and they enforce it.. I rarely watch the PGA except the majors.. the arrogance of slow play says my time is more important than my fellow golfers, my time is more important than the networks and the viewers.. terrible
Regardless of conditions, shot clock or expectation should still be reinforced. Make the process and decision making quicker. More volatility on leaderboards. Faster pay. Brings a wider variety of potential winners etc
I don’t understand these little sessions golf channel has. You guys can complain, players can complain everyone can complain but it will never change. Players read putts for hundreds of thousands of dollars sometimes millions. Players have shots to keep their tour cards they’re going to be sure they have covered all factors and elements before taking the shot. If you’re so worried about slow play give players golf carts and range finders. (Which obviously will never happen)
I don't know if it helps but if it's 230y from the 5th green to the 6th tee let the players jump on a cart. Also, as soon as a caddie hands the player a putter he-she needs to head to the next tee. Fewer footprints.
The player, upon finishing the hole heads to the next tee, and hits.
Everyone knows it's on the greens. Ridiculous routines are slowing the game down. Especially that stupid walk to feel the slope of green with your feet.
The first round of golf ever played and now in 2025 – geez that took forever…. What do you think we should do — I don’t know what do you think we should do — I KNOW let’s do nothing and keep complaining 🙄
Sadly the pros influence the everyday golfer which leads to 5hr+ rounds on a Sunday morning throw the balls up 😢
The walking volunteer scorers could start a clock once the pro arrives at his ball, he has 5 min to strike the ball. On the greens same thing you have only so long to strike the putt once the farthest person plays and his ball is marked. Make it for all players in all situations regardless of the round or the player. How hard is this? Rex is right, lack of will.
They've been smacking their gums about it for years! Show sum 🎱🎱 and actually do something already!
For any substantive changes to happen for the pga tour substantive changes have to happen at the top first. I mean how long do you need to realize this ?
Maybe then and only then the right people will be put in place; like good rules officials who won’t blame field sizes and whatever else they can blame so they don’t have to do anything. Or make any vip players upset.
Ssg😂 those are just shark leeches investors; we still believe these random rich guys will change anything?
You have a better chance waiting on the commissioner. Imo.
I’ve said this I don’t know how many times, they are gutless at the PGA tour offices because the number one player in the world is a slow player. I’d like Scotty Scheffler. His talent is awesome. But he plays entirely too slow. They are afraid to penalize himbecause he brings ratings. He’s not the only one there are others in the top 25 that are consistent violators
How about having a round table discussion of golf courses that have the name “Plantation “, as part of their title? Sea Island Plantation course…REALLY?
I’ll take slow play, if the player is playing well, given how distracting the fans can be!
It is 2025. How about the PGA hire rules officials that walk with every group. They can handle the shot clock and be readily available to help with rulings when needed (I absolutely hate when a player needs a rules clarification and they are sitting there waiting for the 1 guy who needs to drive over from 3 holes away). I understand that golf has always been about being responsible for yourself, but I think it is time to modernize the professional game. What would it take? 36 or 37 officials if you assigned an official to follow each individual group ( assuming there are 2 groups on each hole once the first group of the day is playing their 2nd shot on 18) or 50 if you just assign them to positions on each hole (18 total to monitor groups on tees, 14 to monitor groups hitting from the fairways, and 18 to monitor groups on the greens). Each of the other major sports has a dedicated group of officials that travel throughout the season, I am sure you could find enough people that would be willing to join the PGA caravan for the season.
Pace of Play seems to be a problem mostly for the broadcasters. Slow TV only works for so many viewers. More – like me – will just watch highlights on YouTube. The action isn't slow in highlights. If pace is really a problem for the fast Tour players then surely they can help get some teeth in enforcement internally. They're not slowing me down when I play – so it's just a TV issue, not a golf playing issue for me
I say let the fans heckle… "Hey Cantley, you baking a ham over there!!"
This has bled over to amateur golf. My buddies now each has a range finder. Two balls next to each other on the fairway and each has to take time to laser the flag for the distance. That's 45 seconds of wasted time. The pros are worse because they have to measure, calculate, communicate, measure again. I ain't watching golf anymore because of this.
Why the thumbnail?
make the weekend rounds a shotgun (3 players per group) 54 players total.
whos the worse? any tours
Halfway checkpoints. Each group has a time they must complete the firet 9 holes. Miss your time and you're on the clock until you carch up. You get a monitor who watches the group and assess a penalty if you continue to lag.
This might be crazy, but what if players started using carts? It speeds up pace of play but you can also have cameras in each cart to capture interactions between the player/caddy
Unwatchable product. Commercials, boring personalties, shot values gone…wedges to every fucking hole. Every week is 25 under. All they need is a windmill.