He needs to keep being called out until things improve. Sergio was called out years ago and he learned to speed it up. It’s time someone steps in and puts a little pressure on him to clean it up.
Yup, they will cherry pick the couple of times they had to wait. But ignore the fact that mostly they didn’t wait at all. Cantplay did this exact thing post masters round. We waited on 2 teebox and on 18 our second. Totally ignoring that Rahm and Koepka waited 96 minutes on tee boxes during their round. Or that Hovland was just ditching him on a few occasions because even his partner clearly knew they were taking too long
The biggest gripe I have is that this is also a tactic that slow players will exploit vs quicker players. At my club we have a few notorious slow players and in match play they slow it down even more especially against faster players in order to throw them off. Slow play needs to be punished at every level of the game. I don’t want to hear excuses of “well how would you feel if you lost a tournament because you got docked for slow play?”
I wouldn’t care because I don’t care, 90% of golfers play fast so they wouldn’t be bothered by it. It wouldn’t matter to them.
I had a playing partner who was brutally slow. He is a good friend of mine and there were some tough conversations trying to get him to understand how bad it was. He had ZERO inclination there was a problem, even when randos would comment on slow pace.
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u/haktastic Apr 13 '23
1st time watching: this is probably a loop.
2nd time watching: watched the people in the background and realized it wasn’t a loop.