PGA tour boss Jay Monahan gets very defensive about slow play. PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan has finally addressed the slow pace of play concerns!! we have heard slow much talk about slow play but no one has ever properly addressed it!
Pace of play has recently become a major discussion on the PGA Tour, and it certainly was at the masters 2023! It is also becoming a growing topic in all tours including the pga tour, liv golf tour, DP world tour, as there is pressure to ensure that golf players do not slow down their pace of play! Now, Jay Monahan the PGA tour commissioner is chiming in on the issue, too!
Patrick Cantlay has been under the spotlight since his slow play at the masters following Brooks Koepka’s comments at the Masters. The four-time major winner was playing alongside eventual winner Jon Rahm, and following their round he complained about Cantlay and Viktor Hovland’s pace in the group ahead of them. Was this fair? There was a major reaction to this on social media but the masters 2023 is such a huge event!
Reigning U.S. Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick called slow play a disgrace on the PGA tour following his win at the RBC heritage a week after.
He notably played with Cantlay and Jordan Spieth in the final group Sunday at Hilton Head before defeating Spieth in a playoff.
Jay Monahan has gone very defensive in his approach over slow play, find out exactly what he said in today’s back 9 video.
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It took long enough but it’s not the reaction we wanted?
It's all about the money, nothing more, nothing less.
Can’t upset the stars
“We’re in the entertainment business.” That’s the most honest thing Monahan has said in a year.
Did you really expect anything else?? I will watch LIV, where it is "customer" oriented. Hhhm, you don't think that the new PGA format is a reaction to LIV ps I do appreciate your comments and videos
I may have hit submit too early Did you expect anything else?? I will watch both LIV and PGA but appreciate LIV more as I can schedule my day a bit better. Hhhm, you don't think that the recent PGA schedule is a result of LIV LOL
Not exactly a very honest reaction by Monahan to just point out that the Zurich finished early. That's great, but what are the stats over the whole year? But also, "we don't want to finish early because it upsets the advertisers, so that too, if we don't finish early ever again." Monahan is just shoveling the shit against a wall to see what sticks.
So fitting the golf round a TV schedule is paramount then?
Awesome, I won’t watch at all then more time to actually play the game not watch someone line up a putt for hours 😉😉
How many played the last day of the Masters?
All they need to do is enforce rule 5.6b
It is recommended that the player make the stroke in no more than 40 seconds after they are (or should be) able to play without interference or distraction, and he player should usually be able to play more quickly than that and is encouraged to do so.
I honestly do not watch most PGA events on the weekends (usually busy with family stuff or other activities) so I'm not sure if this is something that they do during the main broadcast or if it defaults over to being on the Golf Channel/online only, but if a standalone NFL game finishes ahead of their full time slot you get a slew of player interviews. Also go back to the guys in the studio and do a bonus breakdown to fill the full time. I bet the TV ratings fall off during that time too but thats not a good enough reason to encourage everyone to play slow
The answer is simple and it's already in place! The Marshals must MARSHAL.
You sound like your selling shares in LIV – that’s how they do it
not sure the rule of having to let the faster player behind you go through and wait for them to get ahead of you. but if this is true for tournament play. if i were a faster player, idd use this to piss off the slow players making them have to wait and hopefully out of their gameflow. this will solve the problem by itself.
🤔🤔🤔….Well if they give them 10 hours to complete a round but they finish In 7 hours will they say “well we finished 3 hours earlier than anticipated”…. What on earth are the doing they should give 5 hours a round and fined £1000 for every minute over…
Slow play goes beyond TV. Now that the sun rises a bit earlier my golf buddies and I can get earlier tee times and be the first on the course. We tee off around 6:00 a.m. and routinely finish our round between 9:30 and 9:45. That's 4 players DONE in under 4 hours. Earlier in the year we had later tee times due to darkness and or cold temps and we often found ourselves following ridiculously slow players and had many rounds in excess of 5-5 1/2 hours. To say that doesn't make for an enjoyable outing is an understatement. Public golf courses can start by removing the blue tees and/or moving ALL the tee boxes forward. The majority of male golfers I see on the course have absolutely no business hitting from the "blues" and many should be on the red tees. I know a lot of 20+ handicappers will get pissed off… so be it.
jay is a hack…
jay does not care what the players or fans think….he thinks he is the golf god….
No one cares about what LIV golf has to say once you leave a company it's just sour grapes…thank God they moved out of PGA most of them have. no self morals just what's in it for me..
The PGA Tour needs to do what American Baseball did to combat the slow games. Put the players on the clock the moment it’s their turn. Determine a fair time, and penalize a stroke if you go over the shot clock. It’s a very simple concept!
Stop caddies from reading greens it should only be the player reading his own greens. I have to and not allowed some ones help. Caddies are laying on green then walking all over greens it all takes time
Slow play has been a subject on PGA since forever but the only thing the commissioner is interested in is filling their 11 hour broadcast to maximize ad revenue. This is why they spread out the top guys from top to bottom instead of doing the opposite thing and having the top 30 tee off in a row. If the top 30 always would start together you could start watching golf again knowing you wouldn't have to watch a bunch of noname fillers with zero chance of winning. Isn't that unfair giving the top 30 the best tee times? No, they earned it by being better, just like the top guys in tennis always play the centre court. Cut all field sizes to 100, let the top 30 start together and commit to the same events, keep the cut line at top 50 and penelize two shots to all slow fiddlers like Cantlay and Horschel. Simple.