Two-time main champion Collin Morikawa believes the PGA Tour ought to observe the LPGA Tour’s lead in cracking down on gradual play.
Below 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 nice.
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 throughout 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 side of the followers, I realise they’re complaining about gradual play, however when you confirmed them extra pictures I do not suppose they’d complain concerning the gradual play, proper?” Morikawa stated in a press convention forward of The Genesis
Invitational.
“Nevertheless it is a matter on the Tour. Not at all is it one thing that needs to be appeared over. It needs to be solved.
“Clearly you see what the LPGA’s doing. That you must begin fining folks. Look, if I received slapped on the wrist and received a nice, completely would I not need to be fined once more.
“It is identical to the NBA, just like the technicals. Some guys are OK with getting fined each week for Ts. If guys are OK getting technicals and getting penalties out right here on Tour as a result of they’re gradual, so be it.
“One thing must occur and nobody desires to be that guinea pig, that first man to do it and to get it, however it has so begin someplace.”
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Morikawa additionally stated he would don’t have any challenge if a listing of dangerous instances and penalties was made public, including: “It is not going to be that dangerous when you let a listing out.
“Whether or not it is public or not, I believe you are specializing in the flawed factor. It is extra simply you have to do one thing about it, and I do not suppose sufficient individuals are getting fined or sufficient individuals 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 identical 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.
