Debates Around Slow Play Increase

Right now a hot issue in the golf world is slow play. Many people are tired of offending golfers on tour taking too much time over shots.

Want to know the quickest way to get a professional golfer to go from calm to enraged? Ask him for his opinion on slow play.

Without a doubt, slow play is the biggest hot button issue in golf at the moment. With players vying for record purses each week, it makes sense that one would take extreme care with every approach shot and putt during a round.

A missed shot here or there could be the difference between taking home a seven-figure check and finishing in the middle of the pack. But in recent years, guys have been taking too much time over shots.

National golf publications have released lists each year, ranking the worst slow play offenders on tour. Yet even the shame of being branded a slowpoke hasn’t deterred some guys from continuing to take over a minute to hit a shot.

While the tour continues to turn a blind eye to the slow play epidemic currently plaguing the PGA Tour, current No. 1 ranked player in the world, Luke Donald, decided give his slow play opinions on Twitter, after Steve Stricker and Jonathan Byrd were put on the clock during the… continue reading

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