Fore Please. 2019 Golf Running Thread

All Kuchar did was lobby a rules guy. They all do that. In the end he hit it and made par.

 

Actually, the Kuchar segment was comedy gold. "Can there be a pitchmark on top of a pitchmark?"

 

Glad to see Cantlay win at Jack's Place yesterday, but Good Lord, he's got to develop some pace of play.
I'm not saying turn into Lee Trevino or anything, but if he would ever get paired with DeChambeau or Ben Crane, you'd have a 6 hour round.

 

What I loved yesterday was Cantlay saying, and Nicklaus confirming, that Jack's advice on how Cantlay could become a better closer was just to look around, smile, and realize this was the fun part of golf. Because I sure remember Jack Nicklaus being all smiles in the final rounds of tournaments.

 

Dottie Pepper got on Cantlay a couple of times in a roundabout way ("he really spent a lot of time over that shot"). At least Cantlay doesn't insist, like DeChambeau, that having a tough decision about a shot doesn't mean you get more time. Making a bogey doesn't mean you get more time on the next hole. Hitting the ball into a hazard and taking a drop doesn't mean you get more time. But DeChambeau believes that. His quote last week to the rules guy who put him the clock, "Doesn't that get factored in?"
No, asshole.

 

The day golf gets a hard shot clock is the day the sport is set free. You speed up a man's mind and process beyond glacial, and things start to happen.

Golfers would fuss and moan a little bit. Then they'd adjust. There's too much money not to.

 

They don’t seem to have much trouble speeding up if they’re trying to beat a threatening storm or dusk.

 

They said same thing about serve timer in Tennis and players adjusted.

 

The Rules officials would have nothing to talk about on the radio if pace of play wasn't an issue.

 

Shocked this didn’t make it here yet.

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