Collin Morikawa has an easy way to fix the slow golf problem that will work for fans and the good.
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Slow PGA Tour problem has been done Almost unbearable at the beginning of this season. Last rounds during American Express and Farmers Insurance Open both violated the five -hour sign and led to critical remarks By Dottie Pepper of CBS and Frank Nobilo of NBC.
The pace of play is one of some things that Pro Golf must fix in order to adapt and survive in this attention economy. Baseball did this with the pitch and golf should follow the lawsuit.
So far the best players are all over the board what a slow solution might look like.
Rory Mcilroy admitted that his solutions Will not be for everyoneBut the world no. 3 believes that the breakdown of the number of players in the field and on the tournament will speed up things. Justin Thomas doesn’t think The idea to add an hour shot TGL-Esque Will work. Lucas Glover shocked a slow -fold manifestation on Siriusxm PGA Tour radio, which included To get rid of the point of target Green reading technique, giving each group their own bunker Racker and taking children who serve as standard carriers from photography.
The great winner twice Collin Morikawa offered Tuesday with his slow epidemic during his pre -tour interview at the Invitational Genesis. He knows the tournament has a problem and that things need to change to attract and keep viewers. He believes that tournament transmission partners can help them with problem optics while working to fix things on the course.
“With the fans aspect, I mean, I realize they are complaining about a slow game, but if you showed more shots, I don’t think they would complain about slow game, right?” Said Morikawa. “How would they know if it’s slow or not if they are seeing more shots in general in the cover window?”
In terms of speeding up the tournament, Morikawa wants them to pursue the LPGA lead and begin to place the law on offenders moving at the rhythm of a snail.
“But it’s a matter on the tournament,” he said. “In no way is something to be seen. Must be selected. Of course, you see what the LPGA is doing. You need to start fine people. Look, if I would hit the hand and make a fine like me I would absolutely not want to be fined again. Just like NBA, like techniques, right? Some boys are okay with the fine every week. If the boys are okay to get technicians and receive penalties here on the tours because they are slow, so it will be. Something has to happen to say how – and no one wants to be that Guinea, that first guy to do it and get it, but it has to start somewhere. “
The current policy says: “A player in a group that is out of position can be penalized for unreasonable delay if: a. The player requires more than 60 seconds to play a hook, including putts, and/or B. The players exceed the maximum time set for total strokes in a hole set for more than 10 seconds. “
Things will be strict in the future.
With the new policy, players can be fined for 1 to 5 seconds during their appointed time and will receive a penalty with a stroke to spend 6 to 15 seconds. If they go over 15 seconds, the penalty will be two strokes.
On the issue of Aimpoint, Morikawa, who uses the technique, responded to Glover’s idea Suggesting stopping the Putters Long tour as the one using the US 2009 Open Champion.
For Morikawa, the Aimpoint issue talks about a greater issue about the lack of awareness and respect of the tournament for each other and the product. If you want to fix it, you have to make an example of the main offenders, not to punish everyone by removing something that is not the main cause of the problem.
“Aimpoint lasts longer if you are not doing it properly, or not, if you are not doing it when other players are reading their puts,” Morikawa said. “I think there is a matter of respect. I think some players can get closer to the hole, and I get it. When you get too close to the hole when someone else is deciding, yes, as if I don’t want my line and my blow To cross someone else’s foot and their signs.
“From my point of view, Aimpoint helped me 1,000 percent. I listen to the notifiers ever during the game and they say why would you aim for this, this and that? It gets a basis for how I read a blow and how I start my lines. Just like reading something from behind the hole or behind the ball. That’s how I’m reading my general about it. I don’t think people understand how Aimpoint works to really say that is right or wrong. Does the game slow down? I think there are some players who probably do it in wrong points. And sometimes, look, I’ll admit it, maybe I can’t go when I want, so it adds a few seconds. But I know this and I’m aware of that. I think players should be aware of whether they are slow or not, right? How do people know who is slow and do something about it, right? “
Morikawa’s solution is simple and, in theory, must lead to the fastest change in the pace of the game. If you hit boys in the wallet or their results card, they will receive the message and change their ways.
But it is up to PGA Tour to decide that it is time to implement a stricter policy.
We’re waiting.
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