Speaker 1: It's the son of which podcast. I'm your host Claude
Speaker 1: Harmon solo episode of the pod this week. I just
Speaker 1: got back. I was over at the LPGA CME Globe
Speaker 1: there kind of tour championship season ending for the LPGA Tour.
Speaker 1: I was over there with the Marina Alex. I saw
Speaker 1: Charlie Hull and I wanted to touch on some stuff.
Speaker 1: Charlie said last week she was in the last group
Speaker 1: last week with Nellye Korda, had a chance to win,
Speaker 1: didn't get it done. Nelly Quorda won again. I mean,
Speaker 1: what an unbelievable year, and no joke. I got to
Speaker 1: sit and watch Nelly Quorda hit golf balls for the
Speaker 1: last three days and if she's hitting golf balls on
Speaker 1: the driving range, I'm gonna sit and just I mean,
Speaker 1: it's like golf porn. I mean, the golf swing's just
Speaker 1: so good. You know the work she's done with Jamie Mulligan.
Speaker 1: But I just when you watch Nellie's golf swing, I mean,
Speaker 1: she is a player that I will stop and watch
Speaker 1: hit golf balls. It's that good. So she is a
Speaker 1: privilege to watch. But it was Charlie Hall that made
Speaker 1: some comments about slow play, which is a serious issue
Speaker 1: on every single tour. It's taking you know, over five
Speaker 1: and a half hours to play golf in a tournament,
Speaker 1: which is just it's just ridiculous, and slow play is
Speaker 1: nothing new, right, And the thing is, this is just
Speaker 1: my opinion, but if the tours wanted to fix this,
Speaker 1: they could fix it, right, they could fix slow play,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't seem like they want to fix it.
Speaker 1: So it was Charlie Hall that said, what was her quote,
Speaker 1: She said, I'm pretty ruthless. If you have three bad
Speaker 1: times in a year, you lose your card. She's like,
Speaker 1: that would stop, so pay immediately. You know what, She's
Speaker 1: one hundred percent right now. They're never going to do that.
Speaker 1: That might be a little bit extreme. The powers that
Speaker 1: be are never going to do that, but historically what
Speaker 1: they've done in the past is if you get a
Speaker 1: certain amount of bad times and you get fined and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Again solely my opinion, but I don't
Speaker 1: think the finds work. I mean certainly not on the
Speaker 1: PGA tour. Those guys make so much money. If you're
Speaker 1: a big star, and there are some big stars that
Speaker 1: you know, everybody knows theyre slower The thing about slow
Speaker 1: play that drives me crazy, and I think drives everybody
Speaker 1: crazy that's involved, certainly at the professional level, is everybody
Speaker 1: on tour PGA Tour, Champions Tour, dp World Tour, LPGA Live,
Speaker 1: everybody that plays on those tours, everybody associated with those tours,
Speaker 1: everybody involved with those tours knows exactly who the slow
Speaker 1: players are. Every player knows who the slow players are.
Speaker 1: Every caddy knows who the slow players are. Every rules
Speaker 1: official knows who the slow players are. Every tour commissioner
Speaker 1: knows who the slow players are. All the media know
Speaker 1: who they are. Everybody in the game knows who the
Speaker 1: slow players are. And the players that play fast don't
Speaker 1: affect the people that play slow because they just keep
Speaker 1: playing slow. But slow play dramatically affects fast players. I
Speaker 1: happen to work for two of the fastest players in
Speaker 1: the game, Dustin Johnson and Brooks kept goa. They are fast, right,
Speaker 1: DJ maybe gets a little bit slower on the greens,
Speaker 1: But you know, the camera guys that you talk to
Speaker 1: from CBS or NBC or ESPN. If DJ's in the
Speaker 1: group and he's last to hit, they're kind of standing
Speaker 1: behind two of the players. They can't get the camera
Speaker 1: behind DJ fast enough because he's already gonna pull the trigger.
Speaker 1: So when fast players are paired with slow players, and
Speaker 1: everyone knows who the slow players are, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: there will be players that you get paired with and
Speaker 1: you'll just go, oh man, we're gonna be on the
Speaker 1: clock NonStop. And that's the thing, right, So they tie
Speaker 1: the players. They have a certain amount of time. I
Speaker 1: think it's around forty seconds to hit your shot. There's
Speaker 1: some different rules if it's on a par three, if
Speaker 1: you're third to play, you're out of position, all that,
Speaker 1: but generally it's about forty seconds. And I think most
Speaker 1: of the time they'll give the guys up to a minute.
Speaker 1: So you've get forty seconds to hit a shot right
Speaker 1: on a golf course, competitive around the golf So what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do right now, okay, is I got my phone.
Speaker 1: I'm going to start my stopwatch. I am not going
Speaker 1: to say anything, and I am going to stop when
Speaker 1: we get to forty seconds. Okay, three, two, one go.
Speaker 1: So that was forty seconds. And I did that to
Speaker 1: prove a point, right, that should have seen like a
Speaker 1: really long time of just dead air that's forty seconds.
Speaker 1: That's how much time you've got to hit a golf ball.
Speaker 1: So if you can't hit a golf ball in forty seconds,
Speaker 1: my question is, what the hell are you doing? Like,
Speaker 1: what is taking so long? And I think one of
Speaker 1: the things that we're starting to see, and I think
Speaker 1: one of the reasons why slow play is such an
Speaker 1: issue is you go watch junior golf, you go watch
Speaker 1: AJJA golf, you go watch high school golf, you go
Speaker 1: watch college golf. It's like watching a glad. I mean,
Speaker 1: they are playing so slow. We have a college tournament
Speaker 1: at my club, the Floridian every year of the vast
Speaker 1: Bar Collegiate Invitational. They can't finish, like, they can't finish,
Speaker 1: they run out of daylight. I think it took one
Speaker 1: of the final groups last week on the LPG almost
Speaker 1: five hours forty seconds. They finished in the dark. Now
Speaker 1: the quarter had to finish in the dark on Saturday night.
Speaker 1: You couldn't even see the flag because they're running out
Speaker 1: of daylight because they can't finish faster. So everyone knows
Speaker 1: they've got X amount of time, right, And what happens
Speaker 1: is the slow players will just do their own thing
Speaker 1: until the group gets put on the clock, right, and
Speaker 1: as soon as the rules officials come out and say, okay,
Speaker 1: you guys are on the clock, the fast players all
Speaker 1: look at them and say, you know this isn't me,
Speaker 1: and the rules officials, the tour officials will go, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: we know it's not you. But we've got to put
Speaker 1: the whole group on so they know who's the slow player,
Speaker 1: they know who's the fast player. So what ends up
Speaker 1: happening is once you get on the clock, you don't
Speaker 1: want to get a bad time. The slow players speed
Speaker 1: up and they start moving really really fast. And then
Speaker 1: if you're not a slow player and you get out
Speaker 1: of position and you need to take you know, time
Speaker 1: to get yardage yourself, I've got no problem if you
Speaker 1: need a little extra time. If you're in the rough right,
Speaker 1: if you're out of position, off the tee, if you're
Speaker 1: out of position and you now have a shot to
Speaker 1: where you're not in a fair way, it's tough to
Speaker 1: get a yardage. It's going to take some creativity. You're
Speaker 1: going to have to try and you know, think on
Speaker 1: the fly. I get that that can sometimes take a
Speaker 1: long time. But if you're standing in the middle of
Speaker 1: the fairway shouldn't take you two minutes to hit one.
Speaker 1: And so what we're starting to see is the players
Speaker 1: on TV that everybody is watching, right, junior golfers, high
Speaker 1: school golfers, college golfers. They want to emulate the best
Speaker 1: players in the world, right, they want to emulate everything
Speaker 1: about them, their golf swings, their techniques, their routines, all
Speaker 1: of it. But what's happening is junior golf, the pace
Speaker 1: of play is just atrocious. Like it's criminal how bad
Speaker 1: it is. Right, college golf, I mean, it's brutal, how
Speaker 1: slow it is. I think the coaches in college golf
Speaker 1: are basically now de facto caddies. Right, it's an individual sport.
Speaker 1: They're walking around with their players, they're getting yardage, they're
Speaker 1: looking at the yardage book. So at the elite Division
Speaker 1: one college golf, in all the big programs, the coaches
Speaker 1: are basically caddies. Right, They're getting the yardage, they're talking
Speaker 1: strategy and stuff like that. But that process is taken forever.
Speaker 1: The aim pointin from two feet is taken forever. Listen,
Speaker 1: I'm not bashion on ame point. Right. I think there's
Speaker 1: a simple solution to this, right, slow players kind of
Speaker 1: fall into two categories. There'll be slow players that you know,
Speaker 1: do a bunch of regrips, that do a bunch of waggles.
Speaker 1: I mean, we know who those players are, right once
Speaker 1: they get over the golf ball, it just takes them
Speaker 1: forever to hit it. We know who those players are.
Speaker 1: But what really slowing play is it's like nobody is
Speaker 1: ready to hit their shut So if you're the first
Speaker 1: person to hit, you're gonna get your information to go.
Speaker 1: So if you're the first person to hit and you're
Speaker 1: in a group of three, that means there's two other
Speaker 1: players that while you're getting your yardages, while you're getting
Speaker 1: all of your information, you and your caddy. We're talking
Speaker 1: about tour golf now, it's like, what are you doing.
Speaker 1: You should be getting your yardage, looking at the shot,
Speaker 1: looking at the wins, so that when the player hits
Speaker 1: and it's your turn to hit, you would think that
Speaker 1: you'd just be ready to go. But it's almost like
Speaker 1: I joke about it all the time, but it's almost like,
Speaker 1: and this happens a lot in junior golf and in
Speaker 1: high school golf and in college golf. It's like, when
Speaker 1: it's your turn, to play. When it's your turn to pot,
Speaker 1: when it's your turn to hit your t shot, when
Speaker 1: it's your turn to hit your iron shot or whatever. Right,
Speaker 1: it's almost like players turn into figure skaters. You know
Speaker 1: that scene in the Olympics a figure skater where they
Speaker 1: announce the figure skater who's next up, and they kind
Speaker 1: of skate up, and they kind of skate around and
Speaker 1: they skate into the middle of the rink. They throw
Speaker 1: their arms up in the air and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: and then they get into their pose and then they
Speaker 1: go into their routine. And I watched this, it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: you're second in the group to hit. The player who's
Speaker 1: hitting first, it's like they're not doing anything. It's like
Speaker 1: they're not getting the yardage. It's like they're not looking
Speaker 1: at the wind, they're not looking at the lie. They
Speaker 1: have no idea what club they hit. So then as
Speaker 1: soon as that person hit, it's like, Okay, all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, now I'm on stage and I've got to
Speaker 1: go through this elaborate routine. You couldn't be doing all that,
Speaker 1: not distracting the other player and stuff, but you can.
Speaker 1: You'd be getting all of your yardages. You could be
Speaker 1: getting all of your data, gathering information and where the
Speaker 1: wind is, where the lie is, where the pin is.
Speaker 1: All of that. You can be doing that why somebody
Speaker 1: else is hitting. Be ready to go when it's your
Speaker 1: turn putting, I mean the putting green. How long does
Speaker 1: it take to putt these days? It just takes forever.
Speaker 1: And I played golf on Sunday for the first time
Speaker 1: in about a year and a half. Right, I played
Speaker 1: an eighteen hole round of golf, and one of the
Speaker 1: guys that I was playing with said, man, you play
Speaker 1: really really fast. And I'm like, I don't really think
Speaker 1: I play fast. I just kind of get up, look
Speaker 1: at the shot, and hit it right. I mean I
Speaker 1: try and not stand over it. I try and not
Speaker 1: have a lot of thoughts in my head. And I
Speaker 1: think the longer you stand over a shot right, the
Speaker 1: more waggles you take. I just I don't see golfers
Speaker 1: taking more time, and that being about positive things, I
Speaker 1: think the longer you stand there, in my experience, what
Speaker 1: you see is players in their head, they're doubting that
Speaker 1: their decision, they're not comfortable, they don't know what they're
Speaker 1: trying to do, and so it just takes them forever
Speaker 1: to hit it right. And I think if you can
Speaker 1: just kind of be ready to go. I mean, we
Speaker 1: walked to pro am today and you know, Marina Alex
Speaker 1: Why teach on the Ladies Tour and four amateurs right,
Speaker 1: and we see this across the board. How long it
Speaker 1: takes golfers to hit shots, How long it takes them
Speaker 1: to pull the club, to go through their routine, to
Speaker 1: go through their practice swings, to figure out where they're
Speaker 1: trying to It just takes forever. And I just don't
Speaker 1: think that is helping golfers score better. I think the
Speaker 1: longer you're standing there, the more time you take, you're
Speaker 1: just creating more and more doubt. And I think what
Speaker 1: players are doing, and when I ask players, this is
Speaker 1: the response I get. I think a lot of players
Speaker 1: that are slow are trying to make sure that they
Speaker 1: don't leave any stone unturned in their preparation to hit
Speaker 1: the shot right. They're going to try and take in
Speaker 1: as much information is possible so that they don't hit
Speaker 1: a bad shot, so that they don't mess it up.
Speaker 1: And when I ask players, what are you doing? I
Speaker 1: mean I will I film routines a lot, especially on
Speaker 1: the putting Green. I will film players' routines in practice
Speaker 1: and say, okay, do you realize you just took on
Speaker 1: a fifteen foot pot. I'll say, okay, let's imagine your
Speaker 1: first to play, right, You're first to play, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna come up and mark it, okay. And what I'll
Speaker 1: do is I'll film it and time it from the
Speaker 1: time they mark the ball and they go into their
Speaker 1: kind of information gathering phase. And you'll sometimes show players
Speaker 1: you realize you took almost two minutes to hit a
Speaker 1: fifteen foot pot. And so when they watch it back
Speaker 1: and you film it, you watch it back and you
Speaker 1: look at all the looks. I mean, that's another thing
Speaker 1: that I talk to players about, and an effort to
Speaker 1: try and get them to be more decisive, but an
Speaker 1: effort to try and get them to play faster is
Speaker 1: I'll film their routine and say, okay, hey, you just
Speaker 1: took four looks. You just took five practice strokes. What
Speaker 1: are the looks for? And what are the practice strucks for?
Speaker 1: And invariably people can't give you an answer, but when
Speaker 1: they do give you an answer, they're like, listen, you know,
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure I go through my
Speaker 1: process make sure I go through my routine, make sure
Speaker 1: I go through all of that, and all of that
Speaker 1: is so that you don't make a bad pot hit
Speaker 1: a bad shot. But shouldn't the process and the thought
Speaker 1: process be about, Okay, what am I going to do
Speaker 1: here to hit a good shot? Right? What do I
Speaker 1: need to do to focus in here on hitting a really,
Speaker 1: really good shot? And I think if you can focus
Speaker 1: on trying to hit a good shot as opposed to
Speaker 1: trying to not hit a bad shot, the mindset changes
Speaker 1: and the way that you are going to go about
Speaker 1: your shot would be much much faster. So I'm timing
Speaker 1: players you know in practice now, junior golfers, high school golfers,
Speaker 1: college golfers, even you know players that are trying to
Speaker 1: play years ago. I've had them on the pod. He's
Speaker 1: a friend, Trevor Immlman. When Trevor and I work together
Speaker 1: back in the day on the European Tour, Trevor was slow. Listen, Trevor,
Speaker 1: you know, I got no problem saying Trevor slow. Trevor
Speaker 1: knows he's slow. Trevor is meticulous, which is another way
Speaker 1: of saying slow. Right, But Trevor got a bunch of
Speaker 1: slow play bad times like first year, second year out
Speaker 1: on European Tour, we were in Sweden. You got another
Speaker 1: bad time, so he was gonna have to pay a fine.
Speaker 1: And the fines accumulate, so the more fines you get.
Speaker 1: Once you get a certain amount of bad times, you
Speaker 1: get a fine, and then if you get another bad
Speaker 1: time in that year, I think the fine doubles trip.
Speaker 1: But if you continue to get bad times for slow play,
Speaker 1: the finds escalate. And Trevor was about to get popped
Speaker 1: for a pretty big number. I mean it was it
Speaker 1: was five figures, right, And he was a rookie and stuff,
Speaker 1: and so I actually the old kind of legend on
Speaker 1: the European Tour, John Paramore, the head rules official, just
Speaker 1: one of the coolest people you could ever meet. I
Speaker 1: mean he was just a prince of a guy, I
Speaker 1: mean a gentleman. I actually said to John, I said, listen,
Speaker 1: we've got to try and fix this with Trevor. And
Speaker 1: so in one of the practice I had John Paramore
Speaker 1: come out and ride around with us for nine holes
Speaker 1: and time Trevor. And when Trevor got out of time
Speaker 1: or went over is a lot of time, he was like,
Speaker 1: you're out of time, and I think it really kind
Speaker 1: of helped Trevor see how to maybe streamline his routine.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of it is you're trying to
Speaker 1: get and we're not talking about tour golfers, right. I
Speaker 1: mean sometimes when you go out on a golf course
Speaker 1: and you're trying to get around a golf course, drive
Speaker 1: around a golf course. I do that sometimes just to
Speaker 1: go out and kind of take a look at the
Speaker 1: golf course, and you'll get behind a group. I'm not playing,
Speaker 1: I'm just riding around taking a look at We just
Speaker 1: redid all our greens at the Floridian, did a couple
Speaker 1: of redesigns some of the holes. So I did this
Speaker 1: the other day. I wanted to go out our sixth
Speaker 1: law re redesigned it. Wanted to go out and take
Speaker 1: a look, and went out, drove around. I was pulling
Speaker 1: up to the sixth hole and there was a group
Speaker 1: before on the team. These were all like mid handicappers, right,
Speaker 1: you know, just average recreational, everyday golfers, right, And so
Speaker 1: I was trying to get around them and I had
Speaker 1: to wait for them to tee off. Four of them.
Speaker 1: The amount of time it took for four people to
Speaker 1: tee off was a joke, Like it took forever to
Speaker 1: have four people stand up and make golf swings in
Speaker 1: hit a golf ball, and I just was blown away
Speaker 1: at how long it took. And I don't think finds
Speaker 1: are the answers. I really really don't. There was a
Speaker 1: player who plays on the PGA Tour and is a
Speaker 1: human rain delay. It's a glacier. That's how slow he is.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows he's slow. Nobody wants to get paired with
Speaker 1: the He won a tournament, made a poor on the
Speaker 1: last hole, was on TV, and the last four or
Speaker 1: five holes the back nine was just a joke. I
Speaker 1: mean I think there were almost a hole and a
Speaker 1: half two holes behind. This player made a great up
Speaker 1: and down on the eighteenth hole to end up winning
Speaker 1: by one. You wanted how to stop slow play. The
Speaker 1: rules official walks up and goes, oh, and by the way,
Speaker 1: you didn't win, We've docked you a stroke penalty. You're
Speaker 1: going back to the eighteenth hole. You're now in a
Speaker 1: playoff because of slow play. That would fix it. Finding
Speaker 1: somebody fifty grand that's just made three million, four million,
Speaker 1: two and a half million. It just doesn't work right.
Speaker 1: It doesn't work. It might work early on, like I said,
Speaker 1: the story I told about Trevor Immlman for rookies, but
Speaker 1: the tour players and listen, there are some superstar household
Speaker 1: names on all of the tours that are slow that
Speaker 1: everybody knows slow. And then the other thing I think
Speaker 1: that would change things is there's been zero transparency from
Speaker 1: certainly from the PGA to there's a list of players
Speaker 1: how much they're paying in slow play finds, how many
Speaker 1: bad times they're getting, but none of that information ever
Speaker 1: gets released, right, it's all kept in house. I think
Speaker 1: if the fans knew how much certain players were getting fined, right,
Speaker 1: how much they were paying over the course of the
Speaker 1: year in slow play finds, I think the player's persona
Speaker 1: might be different right in the public's eyes and the fans' eyes,
Speaker 1: in the media's eyes, and I think maybe that would
Speaker 1: somewhat be a catalyst to where you didn't want your
Speaker 1: public image. I mean, listen, we all know who the
Speaker 1: slow players are by the eye test, right by the
Speaker 1: players in the group that they play with, if you're
Speaker 1: following that, like, we know who those are. But if
Speaker 1: there was a master list, and you could look at
Speaker 1: you know, like every year, like the most penalized team
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Right, you know who that is, right?
Speaker 1: You know who the most penalized team in the NFL is.
Speaker 1: I think if the tours would list slow play fines,
Speaker 1: how many bad times where the public could go and
Speaker 1: take a look at it. I think it would change
Speaker 1: the way that the slow players played, I really do.
Speaker 1: I think it would force them to kind of maybe
Speaker 1: say listen, I don't want to have this image, but
Speaker 1: I just don't think finds work. And I've talked to
Speaker 1: a couple of rules officials that have said, listen, we
Speaker 1: don't want to give a player a stroke penalty that
Speaker 1: could affect their livelihood. Right, So you could give someone
Speaker 1: a slow pay penalty one stroke and they end up
Speaker 1: missing the cut and then they don't have an opportunity
Speaker 1: to make money that week. I get that argument, and
Speaker 1: I unders stand it. I don't agree with it because
Speaker 1: I think that is just perpetuating the myth. And then
Speaker 1: when they do find players, when they do give players
Speaker 1: penalty strokes, it's never a player of any significance, Right,
Speaker 1: It's never a superstar that is slow. It's always someone
Speaker 1: that's at the back of the field, maybe an amateur,
Speaker 1: maybe a qualifier and stuff, but it's never a superstar
Speaker 1: that everybody knows is slow, right, that just doesn't happen.
Speaker 1: So I just I think everybody in the game knows
Speaker 1: its slow play is a problem. But I just question
Speaker 1: if the powers that be really want to fix it
Speaker 1: because every year we talk about it, every year they
Speaker 1: say they're going to change it. And what it's doing.
Speaker 1: It trickles down everything in the professional game, trickles down
Speaker 1: to the average golfer, from the clothes that they wear,
Speaker 1: from the mannerisms, from the swings, from the waggles to
Speaker 1: the shoes to the potter. Right, everybody's trying to and
Speaker 1: you'll the best players in the world. And one of
Speaker 1: the really cool things about golf unlike professional football. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can go to a football game and wear a jersey, right,
Speaker 1: and pretend like you're a part of the team, and
Speaker 1: that's how you're showing your fandom. But in golf, you
Speaker 1: can buy all of the equipment that your favorite player plays.
Speaker 1: You can buy his driver, the same shaft with the
Speaker 1: same grip. Do that with every club in the bag.
Speaker 1: You could get the same wedges, you get the same
Speaker 1: stamps on the wedges, you get the same putter, same
Speaker 1: grip on the putting right. You can emulate that, and
Speaker 1: you can buy all that. Like nobody's buying shoulder pads
Speaker 1: and all the stuff that you would need helmets to
Speaker 1: play in the NFL. No one's buying that stuff, right,
Speaker 1: So everyone is trying to emulate what PJ door player
Speaker 1: is doing, especially junior golfers, college golfers, high school golfers
Speaker 1: and stuff like, they're definitely trying to emulate it. And
Speaker 1: so a lot of times you watch enough golf on
Speaker 1: TV and you see how many looks these guys are taken,
Speaker 1: and how elaborate some of the routines, I mean, some
Speaker 1: of the routines on the putting greens are I mean,
Speaker 1: they're just so much going on, so many reads, taking
Speaker 1: so much time, so many looks, And so that is
Speaker 1: trickling down to junior golf. That is trickling down to
Speaker 1: high school golf. It's trickling down to college golf, and
Speaker 1: those junior golf, high level junior golf at the AJGA level,
Speaker 1: high school golf, high level high school golf, college golf,
Speaker 1: Big Division I college program to joke how slow it is.
Speaker 1: I mean, the rounds just take forever, So be ready
Speaker 1: to hit when it's your turn. I understand that there
Speaker 1: are great rules in golf, and I understand that there's
Speaker 1: history and tradition and all of that stuff. But as
Speaker 1: we come to the end of twenty twenty four, can
Speaker 1: we just play ready golf? Right? Can we just play
Speaker 1: ready golf? If you're ready to hit and you're not
Speaker 1: in the line of sight of your other player, you're
Speaker 1: not going to affect their shot, and you're ready to go,
Speaker 1: pull the train and hit it, hit it. You don't
Speaker 1: need to wait. In tournaments, they have to wait, right.
Speaker 1: In tournaments, by the rules, they have to wait. But
Speaker 1: if you're not in a tournament, you're just playing at home,
Speaker 1: say to your playing partners, hey, guys, any chance we
Speaker 1: can play ready golf today? If you're ready to go, peggett,
Speaker 1: send it, hit it, go right. If you're not gonna
Speaker 1: get in somebody else's way, right, if you're on the
Speaker 1: putting green, if someone's got a forty footer and you've
Speaker 1: knocked it in there fifteen feet and you're not in
Speaker 1: their line, and you're not gonna be in their through
Speaker 1: line and they're taking a bunch of time and stuff,
Speaker 1: and you're ready to go. Say hey, I'm ready to go.
Speaker 1: Do you mind if I go ahead and putt right?
Speaker 1: Play ready golf, be ready to go. When it's your turn,
Speaker 1: take your practice swings and do all of the drills
Speaker 1: and the mimics and all that stuff. Do all that
Speaker 1: stuff while the other guys are hitting, and you can
Speaker 1: get out of the other player's line of sight right,
Speaker 1: you can get out of that. I think sometimes people
Speaker 1: don't want to do that because they're like, I don't
Speaker 1: want to mess them up. But you can make your
Speaker 1: practice swings right so that way as soon as the
Speaker 1: other player has hit their shot, so you've done it
Speaker 1: in the middle of the fairway, you're the longest right.
Speaker 1: You're playing a group of three. By the time the
Speaker 1: other two people have hit, you should be already walking
Speaker 1: into it and be ready to go because you've had
Speaker 1: ample time to get the club, get the yardage, figure
Speaker 1: out the lie, figure out the wind, figure out where
Speaker 1: you're trying to land it. You've got ample time to
Speaker 1: do that. But on the PGA Tour you've got forty
Speaker 1: seconds to do that, and so time yourself, go out,
Speaker 1: put your phone in your pocket, hit the stop watch,
Speaker 1: put it in your back pocket and say, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try and hit the shot in under forty seconds.
Speaker 1: Put a timer on. We're starting to do that a
Speaker 1: lot with our juniors. We're putting them in drills and
Speaker 1: in situations where there's time constraint to where they can't
Speaker 1: take a lot of time, so they have to think
Speaker 1: clear and they have to make better decisions. But I
Speaker 1: like what Charlie Hall said, love it. It's never gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a little too much, but it's not getting
Speaker 1: any better. I actually think it's getting worse. I think
Speaker 1: slow play is getting worse year on year. It's getting
Speaker 1: worse at the competitive level. Without a doubt, at the
Speaker 1: elite competitive level, slow play is a massive, massive issue.
Speaker 1: It just is. And I just think that if everybody
Speaker 1: would be ready to go focus on hitting good shots,
Speaker 1: do all of your information gathering before your playing partners hit,
Speaker 1: and then have a specific routine that you stick with, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, do you need five six practice swings? I
Speaker 1: mean I watched the guy today on the golf course,
Speaker 1: a twenty five handicapper off on a tea box. The
Speaker 1: guy made six practice swings and then backed off and
Speaker 1: then got back in and made two more. You're like, dude,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? And then do you think the
Speaker 1: shot was good? Rarely do I see a player take
Speaker 1: an enormous amount of time. We see this at the
Speaker 1: Elite Tour level because obviously they're the best players in
Speaker 1: the world world. So some of the slowest players in
Speaker 1: the game are also some of the best players in
Speaker 1: the game. Right when they're slow, they hit good shots. Rarely,
Speaker 1: if ever, do I see someone take an eternity in
Speaker 1: their information gathering and then all the waggles and the
Speaker 1: practice swings. Rarely do I see a player hit a
Speaker 1: good shot and in my head, I'm like, you could
Speaker 1: have gotten up there, not made a practice swing, had
Speaker 1: one waggle, took a look at the target, and hit
Speaker 1: the exact same shitty golf shot and done it in
Speaker 1: under forty seconds, done it under twenty seconds. So next
Speaker 1: time you go out to play, think about your routine.
Speaker 1: See if you can maybe scale back your routine and
Speaker 1: work on on the driving range and say, all right,
Speaker 1: let me tie myself and see if I can get
Speaker 1: my routine. You know, all the practice swings, all the
Speaker 1: drill feels, everything that I need to do to hit
Speaker 1: the golf ball. Give yourself the tour mark, start it
Speaker 1: a minute, and then see if you can get it
Speaker 1: down to forty seconds. Right, So time yourself. There's timers
Speaker 1: on everybody's phones. Time it. See if you can hit one.
Speaker 1: Go through your full routine and under a minute, and
Speaker 1: then start pairing it down and say, all right, let
Speaker 1: me see if I can get it to fifty. And
Speaker 1: then let's see if I can get it to forty.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna go out on a limb and say,
Speaker 1: you might find that you play better because you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to think faster, and you're gonna have to think less,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna have to rely a little bit more
Speaker 1: on being an athlete and instinct and things like that.
Speaker 1: But I take my hat off to Charlie for having
Speaker 1: the guts to put that out there. It's controversial, it's
Speaker 1: never gonna happen. Maybe it's an overreach, but something needs
Speaker 1: to be done about slow play and we got to
Speaker 1: fix it. So ready golf, be ready when it's your turn,
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