How Quickly Can We Stop Slow Play?

Both the PGA Tour and the European Tour have adopted new policies to struggle sluggish play. The massive query is how nicely they will paintings...

GC and golfing.Com posted two articles concerning the new rule:

• Rex Hoggard summed up the PGA Tour changes
• Brentley Romine summed up the ET changes (this article is actually from last August)

The ET begins enforcing some of these new rules this week while the PGA Tour will simply begin teaching players this week, with actual enforcement beginning the week after the Masters. Both tours plan to use similar guidelines, so we should begin seeing some consistent results as players move back and forth between tours.

What makes those guidelines so one-of-a-kind from past tries is twofold: A attention on individual players (in place of corporations) and a new dependence on Shotlink statistics to cast off any expenses that officials are singling out unique gamers based totally on popularity.

One issue that stood out to me is that the 'slow play list' will use a rolling ten-week common. In different words, in case you're at the list and also you move ten weeks without a penalty, you may drop off the list. (At least that's my information.)

The most obvious alternate that viewers will note is that players will start receiving penalty strokes after two awful instances in a unmarried match, and then greater consequences for every successive bad time.

It might be exciting to see how matters cross at Abi Dhabi this week. I cannot help however wonder if rounds will actually be shorter through the give up of the yr, or whether other reasons of gradual play will display themselves. I guess time will inform.