PGA Tour pro offers hilarious (!) solution for golf's pace of play problem
PGA Tour pro Michael Kim has offered his solution to golf's enduring slow play problem.
Patrick Cantlay will no doubt have a few thoughts to offer on this idea from a fellow PGA Tour pro about how to prevent slow play.
In case you have been living under a rock, talk about pace-of-play is all the rage right now.
It all started at the 86th Masters with LIV Golf's Brooks Koepka putting Cantlay firmly in his cross hairs.
For his part Cantlay responded by placing blame on everyone but himself. He was later put on the clock by a fan. Just watch this.
It's not just on the PGA Tour. LPGA Tour rookie Lucy Li was given a fine for dawdling during the first women's major of 2023.
But we just might have a solution to our infuriating problem that gets golf fans more irate than Rory McIlroy in a room with Greg Norman.
Step up, Michael Kim, who wrote on social media:
"Y'all think Cantlay is slow...you should seem some others. I think there should be a monthly report of the slowest players on @PGATOUR. Public shaming won't work on Cantlay but might work on others."
See here:
Y’all think Cantlay is slow… you should see some others… I think there should be a monthly report of the slowest players on @PGATOUR. Public shaming won’t work on Cantlay but might work on others.
— Michael S. Kim (@Mike_kim714) April 24, 2023
Understandably, Kim was encouraged to name names! But at the time of writing, he has refused to oblige with the request.
We should also point out at this point that this idea was previously entertained by Edoardo Molinari in 2019.
The brother of Francesco tweeted out a 'slow-play' report which featured names such as Tiger Woods, Patrick Reed and Bryson DeChambeau.
It's no surprise that DeChambeau featured in that list. It was reportedly what started his 'feud' with Koepka.
Apparently that beef is now over and the two LIV players are best buddies. Hilariously at the time, Edoardo even named his own brother as a dawdler.
It’s time that professional golf does something serious for slow play...5h30min to play 18 holes on a golf course without rough is just too long...way too long! #stopslowplay
— Edoardo Molinari (@DodoMolinari) April 26, 2019
One of Cantlay's good friends Xander Schauffele leapt to his defence when talking about slow play before the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.
Schauffele took a dim view of criticisms about pace of play by saying:
Cantlay agreed and also clarified that his groups in recent weeks and months haven't even been warned at all.
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