Two-time main champion Collin Morikawa believes the PGA Tour ought to comply with the LPGA Tour’s lead in cracking down on gradual play.
Underneath new insurance policies which is able to come into impact in March, LPGA gamers who take one to 5 seconds longer than the permitted time to play their shot will obtain a fantastic.
Gamers who take six to fifteen seconds longer to play their shot will obtain a one-shot penalty and people taking greater than 16 seconds longer shall be given a two-stoke penalty.
Whereas Denmark’s Jacob Skov Olesen was given a one-shot penalty in the course of the first spherical of the 2024 BMW Australian PGA Championship on the DP World Tour, the final penalty on the PGA Tour was handed out in 2017.
“With the aspect of the fans, I realise they’re complaining about slow play, but if you showed them more shots I don’t think they would complain about the slow play, right?” Morikawa mentioned in a press convention forward of The Genesis
Invitational.
“However it is a matter on the Tour. In no way is it one thing that needs to be seemed over. It needs to be solved.
“Clearly you see what the LPGA’s doing. You must begin fining folks. Look, if I acquired slapped on the wrist and acquired a fantastic, completely would I not need to be fined once more.
“It’s just like the NBA, like the technicals. Some guys are OK with getting fined every week for Ts. If guys are OK getting technicals and getting penalties out here on Tour because they’re slow, so be it.
“One thing must occur and nobody needs to be that guinea pig, that first man to do it and to get it, but it surely has so begin someplace.”
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Morikawa additionally mentioned he would haven’t any challenge if an inventory of dangerous instances and penalties was made public, including: “It’s not going to be that bad if you let a list out.
“Whether or not it is public or not, I believe you are specializing in the incorrect factor. It is extra simply you have to do one thing about it, and I do not suppose sufficient persons are getting fined or sufficient persons are getting penalised.”
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The Genesis Invitational is being staged at Torrey Pines following the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles which prompted the event to relocate from Riviera Nation Membership.
Torrey Pines additionally hosted the Farmers Insurance coverage Open three weeks earlier. It’s the first time since 2020 that two completely different PGA Tour occasions have been performed on the similar venue in the identical season.
Watch The Genesis Invitational at Torrey Pines on Sky Sports activities Golf this week. Early protection is stay from 5.30pm on Thursday forward of full protection at 8pm. Get Sky Sports activities or stream with no contract on NOW.
