RULE CHANGE: Pace Of Play Is Getting A Kick In The Ass

Even though the 2019/2020 golf season has started, and we are quickly approaching the tournament of champions in Hawaii, for most fans of the sport the season doesn’t really start until the Masters.

That’s also the last time some of the tours slowest players are going to get away with usual habits. Allegedly the PGA will focus on players who are regularly above 45 seconds to play a shot. Word on the street is that they have a list of players that will not be made public but those players (cough Bryson, cough J.B Holmes) will have extra focus on their pace of play.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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To go along with the most wanted list the tour is going to focus on the individuals that are playing slow and not the group. Basically, players that just go and hit it like Koepka won’t get penalized because another player in their group is waiting for the afternoon sun to adjust stimp of the green from 14.2 to 14.3.

Those players who continue to exceed the pace of play rules would be timed by a rule’s official and would receive a one-stroke penalty. Now will they enforce this “New rule”? Probably not in my opinion.

The NFL recently implemented a knee-jerk rule change that allows coaches to challenge an uncalled pass interference. If you have followed the NFL this season you have seen that this rule isn’t enforced as much as it should be.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The PGA Tour plans on educating the players over the next few months of the rule changes with the planed effective date set for April 16^th at the RBC Heritage. A complete announcement of the rule change is going to come out next year according to golfdigest.com.

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