If you can’t beat them, you are ashamed of them.
That seems to be the newest strategy of the PGA Tour to reduce the scourge of slow play in the Pro Game, and on Saturday at the BMW championship that took a new light in the form of a revealing new TV image.
The image arrived for the first time during the coverage of the Golf Canal on Saturday of the third round of the BMW championship, with Gat-by-Hole statistics for the pace of the game for the Patrick Cantlay/Shane Lowry combination. The pace of the Cantlay/Lowry Pairing was of specific importance for the Golf Channel Crew, as regulatory analyst Mark Dusbabek explained because the two players had just been placed on the clock.
“The Lowry-Cantlay group is now going on the clock to be timed,” said Dusbabekk, while the image unfolded over the screen and revealed the estimated pace of both players compared to the time par on the previous six holes. “They were warned about the fourth hole on plus four, they have since lost three minutes. The gap has been open to them. They are now plus seven. So we are going to try to get that group back in position and get everyone here.”
The PGA Tour has been more transparent about the pace of playing as the 2025 season is advanced, after some Tour officials told a group of journalists at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-am-AM at the end of January. At the time, Tour officials said that they hoped that transparency would give a better understanding of the true scope of the pace of the playing problem in Pro Golf-that is often emphasized by the play volume at many full-field events while they also offered enough social pressure on touring products that were frequent perpetrators of Slow Play.
On Saturday, for what is considered the first time in the PGA Tour history, the graphic image showed two slow players in the action of Slow-Play-Waardoor Dusbabek can explain the protocols of the PGA Tour to enforce the game. The decision caused a fascinating look in one of the peculiarities of daily tour life, when Dusbabekk explained how Lowry and Cantlay’s round were distinctibly slower than their Tour counterparts.
“There is the pace of the playing card. It’s a huge problem here,” said Dusbabekk. ‘So you can see Steve [Burkowski]what I explained there, they are plus three and a half [minutes]. They have constantly lost time along the way. Now we have not picked them up before because of situations that were going on with the groups for them. So now that they have arrived at plus seven [minutes]That gap, the 12th hole, is open in the front, so now we have no choice but to push that group with it. “
After Tour officials Lowry and Cantlay had placed on the clock, the two golfers completed the rest of their round without problems, where neither of the two players would require the mandatory two “bad times”-or unnecessarily long shot-times die a one-shot penalty. All the while fans watched at home with the knowledge that both players played behind the expected pace.
The graphic falls in line with wider PGA Tour policy changes with the pace of the game, also on the PGA Tour Americas, where the Tour experiments with a new rule Resulting in a one -off fine for the first “bad time” during a tournament round. The hope is that the increased emphasis will result in a more efficient tournament game, which will help improve the entertainment value of golf competition, while also helps to limit the competitive inequality that was sometimes felt between players in “fast” or “slow” groups.
In the instance on Saturday, the image was little more than a public blow to the wrist for the two players exhibited, but offered fascinating theater for those who watched at home.
In other words, another victory for the shame game.
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