More fine work by Bob Labbance.
"They don’t ever assess (stroke) penalties and the fining thing, it takes four or five months before you get one 20 grand fine."
Andrew Both on slow play:
Both also shares this from Matthew Goggin:
As anyone who has attended a tournament lately will attest, it is almost painful watching a professional tournament on site.Ouch. Nice to see this theme picking up steam rapidly, eh?
Both also shares this from Matthew Goggin:
“It’s brutal,” Goggin said. “Slow players can affect fast players but fast players don’t affect slow players. Fast players just have to deal with it.
“Slow players can torture everyone in the group by not letting anyone get into a rhythm, either their playing partners or the three or four groups behind them. We’re all sick of slow players, we all know who they are.”
There have been several suggestions as to how to speed up play, including smaller fields and easier hole locations, but the biggest problem may be that the penalty for slow play on tour is so small.
“They don’t ever assess (stroke) penalties and the fining thing, it takes four or five months before you get one 20 grand fine,” Goggin said.
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if the players want slow play addressed it will be gone in one month. hit five guys with two strokes apiece and slow play is history. but the players dont want it addressed.
...obviously nothing will ever change.
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Rory Sabbattini will always have a special place in my heart, jackassedness and all. Similarly, I will never care for Azinger, who defended Ben Crane.
I was thinking more along the lines of something like football's time of possession statistic. Once it is clear it is your turn to shoot, someone is timing you to see how long it takes for you to make contact.
While it takes everyone the same time to get around the course, you could quantify the guys who are the quick decision makers and those who are the biggest dauddlers (sp).
To make it more interesting, you could break the times down into three sections, 1. Tee box, 2. Green 3. Everything else.
As my son says, "good luck with that."