Slow Rory Mcilroy solution? Is a complicated response

Rory Mcilroy knows it’s a problem.

But that does not mean that the great winner four times has a magic bullet to fix the slow issue that PGA Tour is injuring.

The play rhythm of the game was put under the microscope at the beginning of the PGA Tour season due to the final rounds at American Express and Farmers Insurance Open. On Sunday in the American Express, it took the last group of five hours and 39 minutes to finish 18 holes. That was just an hour less than it took NFL to develop two games on Play off. A week later, it took the eventual champion Harris English and his group three hours to play nine holes in a spice Torrey. Slow game led to criticism From the reporter to the CBS course Dottie Pepperwho called for players to have “respect” for fans, to broadcast other players.

Attention is the currency in today’s overcrowded social media world, and Golf, specifically PGA Tour, should find a way to make professional golf more interesting for viewers who love the game, but they cannot or do not want to see rounds six- hours every week every week. Other sports, like baseball, have been adapted to make the game faster and more attractive to a wider audience.

But golf has always had four and five-hour rounds, especially in more difficult courses with difficult conditions.

Justin Thomas knows that fans want faster rounds, but they also want to look at the tougher tougher PGA Tour courses. Them The two desires are diametrically opposed.

Mcilroy understands the need for the PGA Tour to fit and adjust its glacial rhythm. He has ideas on how to improve things. But he also realizes that possible answers will not be universal familiar with tours and may not make many changes.

“Jeez, I have no idea,” Mcilroy said on Tuesday during his press conference in front of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-AM tour when asked how to adjust the slow game. “Curses are being done – in Torrey Pines last week, the courses are getting harder. You have those wind speeds combined with green speed. Even on one two feet you want to mark it and restore and focus on it and whatever.

“This is not a new problem. This has been around forever, but the slow game was also about when people seemed to love golf. I don’t know what the answer is. There are many different answers, but not every answer will go – it won’t make everyone happy. I can say smaller areas. The smallest areas, the smallest fields would help in the pace of the game, but this removes the possibility of playing people, and this will pissed out some people away. The next thing is when we play at this time of year, tee times should be a little stronger together so that they can all go through with the light of day and everything. If you could be able to open the right time a little more, we hope it would make things flow a little better. Nowadays, most people go for par 5s in two, so you have to wait for that. You have more par 3s. There are many different things that enter it. I don’t know. Looks like — you can probably improve it by 15 or 20 minutes, but this is still a five and a half round in a five-hour round and 15, so it’s really improving it enough to make a big change? I don’t know. ”

Mcilroy and Tiger Woods are co -founder of TGL simulator Golf League. While the initial enterprise has had its ups and downs early Monday evening that presents Woods and Mcilroy was her best night yet – Purpose of the clock aspect of the league has attracted ready-to-benim praise.

The idea of ​​imposing an hour shot at PGA Tour has become a conversation topic, but Mcilroy is not sure it is a applicable opportunity. The clock itself will not solve problems if the PGA Tour does not constantly apply it.

“MLB introduced one hour of pitch at the beginning of last season, and that seemed to work quite well,” Mcilroy said. “It will be – you can try to introduce it, but how it is governed, this is a very difficult thing to do for every single group in the Golf Course. Golf is – there are many things about golf that are too different from other sports, but I think this is what makes it unique. This way for hundreds of years. ”

The simplest solution would be for the PGA Tour to start hitting the players that make their bands fall behind. If you hit the players on their score cards and, therefore, their wallets, some emergencies will naturally reach, which should help improve PGA Tour diving estimates.

Mcilroy there is a solution in the fog of golf estimates. If you have more convincing tournaments with the best players in the world going head -to -head in iconic golf courses, the product will be better, and other issues fade in the background.

“I like the way Golf is, and I think many other people do,” Mcilroy said. “I still understand the criticisms of how the fun product can get better. It is a lot of thing and I think the pace of the game is one thing. To move that kind of ball.

“But as first and foremost we are professional players, we want to get there and shoot the best outcome we can and try to beat each other. You know, we hope people find that fun, and if not, then I don’t know what to say to them. “

Mcilroy and PGA Tour’s best hope to put on a good show – hopefully with some cooperation from the weather – This week at the first signature event of the season.

A Sunday show between Mcilroy, Scottie Scheffler, Ludwig Aberg, and others at the Pebble Beach icon would move far towards the silence of the growing criticism of PGA Tour after a slow start of the season.