Charley Hoffman sent a letter to his good pro -Tour Sunday evening.
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The smell of PGA Tour’s letters continued on Sunday evening, with 20-year-old veteran Charley Hoffman calling for its tour members to keep the game rhythm at the top of the mind and consider the addition of more tournament events in their schedules before other golf opportunities.
Hoffman’s letter – sent to an email titled “Some Thoughts for Our Members” – comes less than two weeks after Justin Thomas scored a letter For his benefits, asking them to be more willing to conduct interviews in the middle of the round and to share more with their television broadcasting. Hoffman’s letter also mentioned the TV element, but he saved his strongest thoughts on the pace of the game.
“We’ve got a lot of heat over the past few weeks for the slow game,” Hoffman started. “And yes, it’s a matter – for our fans, for us as players – lowering the field sizes will help, but only a few minutes a day. As players, we still have to make a coordinated effort to speed. The pace of the game has been a challenge all my 20 years in the tournament, and it was a matter of 20 years before that. We need to take the responsibility to be ready when it is our turn and have the awareness of realizing that we are out of position and speed up even before the rules are displayed all the time, we just have to We are more aware of it! “
Hoffman has long been involved in leading the tournament at the player’s level, serving numerous conditions in the advisory council of the players and twice serving the tournament government on this, the policy board.
The pace of the game has really been a conversation point on both the Internet and on TV broadcasting. Dottie Pepper transmitter used some time During last weekend telekasti to criticize slow pace. Even this week, her teammate Frank Nobloo suggested that the amateurs playing at Pebble Beach Pro-AM were giving the best a good example of the fast game.
Hoffman did not compete in this week’s event, but he will play next week at TPC Scottsdale for WM Phoenix Open, which is among the tournaments they will see smaller fields Next year to improve the pace and complete the tournaments in time.
Hoffman’s letter continued with a brief acquaintance of Thomas’s letter and how players should engage in broadcasting, but continued with a control of how the tour operated to add play opportunities to signature events. Most signature events will start with a field of 72 players, but Pebble pro-am, due to its pro-am nature, fills for 80 players. This requires the tournament to be plunged into alternatives, which he has chosen to choose from the Aon 10 Next, compiled last fall during the FedEx Fall series. tour also There is a ranking called Aon Swing 5, which ranks in the most recent tournaments amidst Signature events. Pebble field was packed with 15 alternatives from further in the other 10 rankings, three of which were within Swing 5. Hoffman, which was listed in Sixth in Swing 5, did not crash closely and therefore lost one pebble invitation. He then saved his most pronounced criticism for the last time.
