Specifically, the proposal calls for a “minimum slope indication limit” that would allow green-reading books to continue to use numbers, lines, arrows or other indications to identify slopes on greens, but only in areas of 4 percent slope (2.29 degrees) or greater.
While the tour is to be commended for trying something like this, where pace of play is overtly enforced, it’s little more than symbolic without the tour’s top golfers participating in the endeavour.
Former world No.1 and four-time Major champion Ernie Els is looking forward to exploring the Pacific paradise of Fiji when he makes his debut at the Fiji International presented by Fiji Airways at Natadola Bay Championship Golf Course from August 2-5 .