‘That’s where it hits hard’: a big winner knows how to repair slowly

Collin Morikawa has a thought about how to repair slow play.

And how not.

“What I learned is that monetary fines are useless,” he said. “We earn so much money, and some boys can honestly give less to it – I don’t know how many the fines are, but whatever x amount they are.”

As you have undoubtedly heard, the subject of Slow Play, well, has been collected steam. First, there were five and a half hours of rounds at the American Express tournament in mid-January. Subsequently, the pace of playing led a week later with the Farmers Insurance Open CBS analyst Dottie Pepper to call less selfishness of players. Then a moment came with Tom Kim a week later, when he was shown to take 40 seconds to talk to his ball at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, then another 25 to make a swing, just to hit the penalty area.

So what is a Pro Golf Tour to do? On Tuesday, prior to this week’s players, Morikawa had a thought. Another kind of fine.

Strokes.

“I think I had spoken with some boys,” said Morikawa, “I think you should just start caressing boys and giving boys actual punishments, whether they are succeeding or fedexcup.

The thought is of course not new – Brooks Koepka offered it at the PGA championship 2023, just like others – but it is worth mentioning that it was raised again on Tuesday. The PGA Tour in particular said on Tuesday that this year it would test such penalties at Korn Ferry events, along with creating a group of “speed of play”; Allowing the test use of ranging children this year during six touring events; and publishing pace of playing information.

When asked specifically about the last item, Morikawa said he supported it.

“I see no problem with it. I think what to hide, right? “He said.” If you are slow, you know that you are slow. I mean, if you don’t know, then there is a problem. For me there is no problem walking, right? It will only make it better, because then you will either get a target on you, put a little more pressure and hopefully you pick it up, or you will be punished.

Having all this said, however, Morikawa said he believes that the movements will shave some Time of rounds. There are still processes to be made for photos, and he said that long camera time can emphasize that.

But also go to the data, he said.

“Last week they released a clip of mine; Yy [Jakovic, his caddie] And I hit a shot, “said Morikawa. “I watched the video. It was like a minute 50, I think it took, or a minute 45 until I hit the ball.

“People – you know, I read it. I read things. Bad, really bad. I am the first to get to my ball. JJ has to end the song and complain people like, oh, hit the ball. I don’t just walk to the ball – nobody, I mean, Ludvig’s [Aberg] One of the best, fastest players there are. He doesn’t just walk to the shot and is like, okay, Joe [Skovron, his caddie]This looks like a 7-iron. How far is it? It is 175. Okay, perfect, go.

‘As if you still have to walk away from our songs. We still have to look at the pin. You have to look at the wind, and that is part of the whole situation. So for me is a part of it how they turn this off, sometimes they make us look slowly because, like, you show that this whole clip of JJ had just put down the bag, we walk to this.

“But there are guys who last a minute and a half, two minutes, when the camera is on that putt, and it’s their turn, and it’s too long. That is why we must release names. As if nothing is wrong with that. “