I Love Charley Hull Now and Agree With Her Completely

[jxdama]

Its way past time both tours  have  major  penalties for  slow  play. I  hate  it when they say" This group is  on the  clock". Big damn deal. Issue  penalties. Maybe Hull is a  bit too harsh but  its time a slew  of  2 stroke  penalties start  being  issued.

 

 

Charley Hull is fed up with slow play on the LPGA, so she offered a ‘ruthless’ solution

“I’m quite ruthless, but I said, ‘Listen, if you get three bad timings, every time it’s a tee shot penalty; if you have three of them, you lose your Tour card instantly.’ I’m sure that would hurry a lot of people up, and they won’t want to lose their Tour card. That would kill the slow play, but they would never do that.”

Who knows if that will work. But if it does not, maybe the PGA Tour should adopt Hull’s idea. The LPGA should, too, or at least assess penalty strokes for slow play. Five-hour rounds for a final group on Sunday is unacceptable and a quick way to lose interest and engagement from fans.

Edited 18 hours ago by jxdama

[dennyjones]

I believe that losing a tour card is too extreme but definitely agree that more needs to be done to prevent slow play.

[jxdama]

47 minutes ago, dennyjones said:

I believe that losing a tour card is too extreme but definitely agree that more needs to be done to prevent slow play.

TV ratings  continue to drop. Stop the endless wiggles and waggles.

[bkuehn1952]

I agree with @dennyjones, a suspension of some meaningful duration would be better than getting bounced from the Tour. They might consider experimenting each week. It might generate a bit of interest. I like the idea of a visible shot clock. If a player and their caddy can’t decide on a strategy and pull the trigger in XX seconds (30? 45? 60?), one stroke penalty. Give each player 2 resets a round. The clock starts when the last player to hit’s ball stops moving.

Other pace ideas could be used every couple events until a consensus is reached to adopt or ditch an idea.