Rory McIlroy has joined the chorus of golfers who have expressed their displeasure with slow play on the PGA Tour.
On Friday, McIlroy was asked about slow play and offered up the following response:
“The fact that someone didn’t finish yesterday, just being through daylight savings and the tee times and someone had to come out today because there wasn’t enough light to finish, I mean, that’s unacceptable. This is [five hours and 40 minutes] after our tee time. I get that it can take five hours to play out there, but it shouldn’t take any over that.”
So, just like Brooks Koepka, McIlroy has become a go-to source for unfiltered opinions on the issues surrounding the PGA Tour.
It took the McIlroy, Mickelson, Kuchar group five hours and 20 minutes to play their round on Friday. That’s a long time and approaching JB Holmes numbers. For both fans on the course and TV viewers, it’s just way too long.
McIlroy then dished a little more by continuing on to say that the PGA Tour needs to be tougher and actually enforce penalties.
“They don’t do anything about it. It’s become somewhat of an epidemic on Tour. Honestly, I think they should just be a little tougher and start penalizing shots earlier and that would be an easy way to fix it.”
It’s about time for the PGA Tour to get to work and actually enforce penalties on guys who take way too long to hit a shot. There’s no reason for it to take 1:15 to hit a shot from the fairway and it shouldn’t take that long to read the green either as everyone can be reading at the same time.