Video: Zach Johnson, Others On Valero's Tepid Pace Of Play

Just 71 players on Sunday at the Valero Open and it took them three hours to play the front nine, 5:32 for the last group, so naturally it's the old field size solution wheeled out by Zach Johnson in this Golf Central interview. He also makes some great points, but it was definitely a pot-kettle-black moment. Especially as he leaves out a mention of the players themselves, which is odd to say the least.

Johnson, says the issues are course setup, spacing of tee times, ripple effects, more daylight (!?) and the issue of putting the rules officials in a predicament in who to enforce the rules on and when. But the main solution he suggests entails reducing the size of fields. An oldie and not a very goodie, especially when Sunday proved that even a reduced field just can't get around a tough course quickly.

Great discussion between Ryan Burr, Steve Flesch and Tripp Isenhour follows the interview. Love the passion! Red phone will be ringing on Golf Channel Drive!

The Kevin Na Playing Partner Penalty: .4 Strokes Per Round

On Morning Drive this Sunday Charlie Rymer talked at length about the cruelty of a Kevin Na pairing because of the added burden it places on his playing partners. Robert Garrigus was too kind to go there, but his caddy Brent Henley concurred.

Well now Luke Kerr-Dineen and the GolfDigest.com team have crunched the numbers and determined that players average nearly a half-shot higher than their normal round scoring average when getting paired with one of the world's slowest golfers.

How'd it turn out? From the start of 2012 through the 2014 Valspar Championship, Kevin Na has played with 220 PGA Tour golfers. On average, those 220 golfers shoot about 0.4 strokes higher when playing with Na. That's almost half a stroke, meaning that if someone plays with Na in all four rounds of a tournament, he'll be expected to shoot 1.6 strokes higher than if he played with someone else.