The anti-slow play movement remains in full effect on the PGA Tour. Whether or not anything actually gets done about it remains to be seen.
Last week, it was CBS on-course analyst Dottie Pepper who called out the final group at Torrey Pines for its snail-like pace. On Sunday, during Golf Channel’s early-round coverage of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, a number of folks on the broadcast took issue with Tom Kim’s pace at the par-5 sixth.
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Kim’s drive found the left side of the fairway, travelling 301 yards and setting up a prime look at reaching the par 5 in two. After one of his playing partners, Justin Rose, had played his approach, the camera cut to Kim, who had seemingly just begun his pre-shot routine long after Rose’s ball came to rest.
Here is the full clip of the routine and the subsequent shot in its entirety:
https://twitter.com/TimmyTebrows/status/1886139300016017508
In another clip, you can hear analysts Jim Gallagher Jr. and Frank Nobilo both subtly rip Kim for taking that long to hit that shot. “One less waggle would have helped,” says Gallagher Jr. “It wasn’t worth the wait,” Nobilo chimes in. “For us, or him,” added Gallager Jr. Spicy!
https://twitter.com/Top100Rick/status/1886139125713051823
Whoever told these TV people to start letting it rip for real deserves a raise. Keep calling these guys out! It would be one thing if Kim actually found the green and set up and eagle putt (it still would be ridiculous). But to take four practice swings and 23 extra seconds standing at address only to flare it in the Pacific Ocean is just a horrific look.
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Of course, Golf Twitter made Nobilo and Gallagher Jr.’s comments seem tame in comparison:
https://twitter.com/StephieSmallls/status/1886153481297199548
https://twitter.com/MarkALamprecht/status/1886216698396905695
https://twitter.com/SleeperGolf/status/1886154106294657529
https://twitter.com/TronCarterNLU/status/1886139925201813927
https://twitter.com/amolyajnik/status/1886140766755438605
Later in the round, Kim, Rose and the third member of their group, Cam Davis, were put on the clock for slow play:
https://twitter.com/NUCLRGOLF/status/1886171820111380539
That oughta fix the issue.