One month after announcing a four-point plan – regulation, education, innovation and (reduction of) field sizes – to counter the cancer that is slow play in professional golf, the European Tour is proving as good as its word.
The four-month gap between May and September is going to have an influence on the kind of golf and the sorts of shots the perennially sizeable galleries will be treated to this week.
The 2020 Ryder Cup can't get here soon enough, and if captains Steve Stricker and Padraig Harrington have any brains they'll pit these two against each other in singles.
