Jay Monahan says Pga Tour will start publishing game speeds at the end of this year

Jay Monahan’s annual PGA State took place on Tuesday morning at TPC Sawgrass, this week’s website The players’ championshipAnd the commissioner had a lot to say.

He spoke about reunification, tourist championship changes, testing searches and more. But one of the most interesting topics that he discussed were the changes soon, which should help the PGA Tour rhythm, a major discussion to start season 2025.

“We hired ourselves to approach the speed of the game,” Monahan said. “For this purpose, I am pleased to formally announce these recommendations from our working speed group, led by players: we will start publishing the statistics related to the game speed later this season.

“We will also start testing a new play policy on the Korn Ferry Tour and PGA Tour Americas, starting next month, on April 14, which will include the assessment of penalty hits for the slow game.”

Publishing the data playback speed, which will apparently call the slower players in the tournament, is something for which fans have clamped. Monahan confirmed that it happens.

both Justin Thomas and Collin Morikawa They were asked about the rhythm of the game on Tuesday morning and both players said they were in favor of accelerating the game and the public of these game speeds.

While Monahan did not give a specific date when these changes will enter into force, he discussed how most of the game speeds were in response to the Fan Fan Fan initiative.

“I had a recent council meeting in which this topic was on the agenda and I presented these recommendations and were fully supported by the council,” Monhan said. “Then, last week, we had a meeting of the Advisory Council for players, where they were similarly supported by our council for players.

“I think there is a real commitment from the players on board to make sure we do everything we can improve, and these three steps are just a beginning.”

The slow game entered under the microscope to open farmers’ insurance when Dottie Pepper from CBS Sports shouted how slow the final group took to play front Nine at Torrey Pines.

While certain factors can lead to the game being a little slower weeks in the tournament, a generalization of most fans-and many players-is that the rhythm can improve drastically everywhere.

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Monhan’s news confirmed that the tour collapses in the slow game, which is a big step forward.

“It is easy to identify the problem. It is a little harder to find the solution, just considering the depth and width of everything that goes in the rhythm,” Monahan said. “But we hired ourselves to find the right solutions and make progress on this front.”

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