If you can’t beat ‘, shame’ em.
This seems to be the latest PGA Tour strategy to sit on the deceit of the slow game in the Pro game, and Saturday at the BMW Championship, those efforts received a new light in the form of a new TV discovery graph.
The graph first arrived during the coverage of the Saturday Golf channel in the third round by the BMW championship, showing the holes from the game rhythm for pairing Patrick Cantlay/Shane Lowry. The Cantlay/Lowry pairing pace rhythm was of specific interest in the Golf Channel crew like Rules Analyst Mark Dusbabek explainedbecause both players had just settled in hours.
“Lowry-Cantlay is going to the time now to spend time,” Dusbabek said as the graph moved to the screen, revealing the rough pace of both players compared to the right time during the previous six holes. “They were warned in the fourth hole in plus four, they have been lost three minutes since then. The hole is open in front of them. They are now plus seven. So we will try to turn that group into position and make them all here.”
The PGA Tour has been more transparent about the pace of the game as the 2025 season has progressed, after what a group of journalists said to tournaments In AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-AM at the end of January. At that time, tour officials said they hoped that transparency would provide a better understanding of the real goal of the problem of the Pro Golf-I game problem, which is often overestimated by the volume of play in many events in the field-while providing abundant social pressure on tour professionals, who were frequent training.
On Saturday, for what is believed to be the first time in the history of PGA Tour, the graph displayed two slow players in the act of slow game-allowing Dusbabek to explain the PGA Tour protocols for the implementation of the game. The decision provided a fascinating look at one of the features of everyday life tour, as Dusbabek explained how the Lowry and Cantlay round was distinct slower than their tour counterparts.
“Has the pace of playing graph. It is a big issue here,” Dusbabek said. “So you can see Steve (Burkowski), what I explained there, they are plus three and a half (minutes). They have been constantly lost along the way. Now we haven’t chosen them earlier because of the situations that were happening in front of them with the groups in front of them. So now they have taken in plus seven (minutes), that hole, the 12th holes, but there was no choice, Push it, but, in the group, but, in the group, but in the group, but, in the group, but, in the group, but, in the group, but, in the group, but, in the group, but, in the group, but, in the group, but in the group, but in the driven group, but in the group, but in the set group, but to push it. ” To push it “, but in the group, but in it, in the group, but in the group, but in the group, but in the group pushed, but to push it.
After the tournament officials set up Lowry and Cantlay at the watch, both players ended up the rest of their round without problems, with no player who suffered two mandatory “bad times”-unnecessary long time-will require a one-blow penalty. All the time, fans observed at home with the knowledge that both players were playing after the expected pace.
The graph falls in accordance with the broader changes of PGA Tour policies that include the pace of the game, including in the PGA Tour Americas, where the tournament is experimenting with a new rule resulting in a penalty with a stroke for the first “bad time” during a round of the tournament. The hope is that the added emphasis will result in the more efficient game of the tournament, which will help improve the entertainment value of golf competition, while also helping to narrow the ever -felt competitive inequality among players in “fast” or “slow” groups.
In the case of Saturday, the graph reached just more than a public slap on the hand for the two players displayed, but provided attractive theater for those looking at home.
In other words, another win over the game of shame.
