Slow play

November 12th, 2025

Tommy Fleetwood responds to accusations of slow play and ‘gamesmanship’ during Abu Dhabi Championship playoff

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November 12th, 2025

Opinion: Is it wrong to want to play at a leisurely pace?

There is nothing wrong with wanting to play at a leisurely pace, and leisurely does not equal slow.

November 6th, 2025

Golf club’s pace-of-play shame sheet goes viral and the internet has OPINIONS

It seems that the pace of play police have gone too far.

September 5th, 2025

Rory McIlroy miffed with TWO SLOW PLAY WARNINGS during first round of Irish Open

On Thursday, in the opening round, McIlroy got a sour taste in his mouth when his group – along with Thriston Lawrence and Kristoffer Reitan – was put on the clock for slow play twice, once early and again late.

August 26th, 2025

Phil Mickelson pokes fun at this particular part of Patrick Cantlay’s slow pre-shot routine

Everyone noticed Cantlay taking a long time over the ball, including the many, many times he shuffled his feet before pulling the trigger. Phil Mickelson took notice as well.

July 18th, 2025

Open Championship 2025: Marc Leishman calls pace of play ‘tough to deal with’, makes interesting LIV comparison

July 13th, 2025

Two-shot slow-play penalty handed out at Evian Championship, the second on the LPGA this year

There’s never a good time to be slapped with a slow-play penalty. Having it happen at a major championship is the worst of all places.

July 8th, 2025

WATCH: Golfer gets thrown into pond like a rag doll during wild fight over pace of play

In what is a tale as old as time, it appears an on-course golf fight broke out over pace-of-play issues. Where this one stands out, however, is by how lopsided it was.

June 26th, 2025

PGA Tour optimistic about findings from pace of play study, expects 2026 to improve significantly

A recently completed trial using distance measuring devices and an ongoing study implementing a revised pace of play policy constitute the basis for an optimistic outlook that pace of play on the PGA Tour should improve in the 2026 season.

June 2nd, 2025

Lexi Thompson addresses slow play accusations after it quickly gained steam at Erin Hills

As the final groups began their rounds on Sunday, Thompson posted on Instagram about her experience at Erin Hills. She began by thanking the USGA, fans and volunteers for their efforts and saying that she didn’t have the week she’d hoped she would. And then she got into the pace of play.

Pro wins tournament after being first to violate new pace-of-play policy

‘THIS IS CRAZY’: Wild golf fight over slow play ends with a broken jaw and cops on the scene

Masters 2025: Reporter’s question about junior slow play stumped Augusta chairman, laughter ensued

‘Stop the fake news idiots’: Alejandro Tosti responds to Houston Open controversy with profanity-laced tirade

Alejandro Tosti appears to purposely slow-play Min Woo Lee in protest of pace at Houston Open

LPGA’s pace-of-play guru explains new rules and penalties that should make players more aware of the clock

March 13th, 2025

The PGA Tour knows pace of play is a problem. Here’s what they’re doing about it

Seven key changes are coming – some imminent, some potential and others, for now, mostly theoretical – that senior PGA Tour staff believe will usher in a new and permanent era of faster play on the circuit.

March 12th, 2025

Players 2025: Penalty strokes for slow play coming to Korn Ferry Tour in April

At long last, some real pace-of-play policies are coming to professional golf. Just not the PGA Tour… yet.

March 6th, 2025

Ludvig Aberg has an interesting explanation behind why he thinks he’s a fast player

The Swede figures that his penchant for promptness on the course can be traced to his experience growing up.

February 18th, 2025

A modest proposal on slow play

Until golf gets a measurement like this, it will be very difficult to speed things up for good.

February 6th, 2025

LPGA informs players of tougher restrictions on slow play for 2025, including more chances for penalty strokes

A LPGA spokesperson confirmed an updated pace-of-play policy was shared with players and will go into effect during the Ford Championship in March but said specifics of the policy would be made public next week.

February 5th, 2025

Former major champion’s simple slow-play fix? Ban AimPoint (among other ideas)

Lucas Glover has several suggestions for speeding up pace of play, starting with banning AimPoint.

Leaderboard

The American Express - 2026

Pos	Player	Tot	Thru	Rnd
1	S.W. Kim	-22	F	3
T2	Blades Brown	-21	F	3
T2	Scottie Scheffler	-21	F	3
T4	Eric Cole	-20	F	3
T4	Wyndham Clark	-20	F	3
T6	Tom Hoge	-19	F	3
T6	Matt McCarty	-19	F	3
T6	Andrew Putnam	-19	F	3
9	J.T. Poston	-18	F	3
T10	Jacob Bridgeman	-17	F	3
T10	Austin Smotherman	-17	F	3
T10	Patrick Cantlay	-17	F	3
T10	Sam Stevens	-17	F	3
T10	Haotong Li	-17	F	3
T15	Russell Henley	-16	F	3
T15	Ryan Gerard	-16	F	3
T15	Sam Burns	-16	F	3
T15	Ben Griffin	-16	F	3
T15	Zach Bauchou	-16	F	3
T20	Rickie Fowler	-15	F	3
T20	Jason Day	-15	F	3
T20	Matt Fitzpatrick	-15	F	3
T20	Pi Coody	-15	F	3
T24	Joel Dahmen	-14	F	3
T24	Karl Vilips	-14	F	3
T24	Robert MacIntyre	-14	F	3
T24	Sam Ryder	-14	F	3
T24	Adam Scott	-14	F	3
T24	Nick Taylor	-14	F	3
T24	Johnny Keefer	-14	F	3
T24	Sahith Theegala	-14	F	3
T24	Harris English	-14	F	3
T24	Min Woo Lee	-14	F	3
T24	Jordan Smith	-14	F	3
T24	Ryo Hisatsune	-14	F	3
T24	Matthieu Pavon	-14	F	3
T37	Chad Ramey	-13	F	3
T37	David Ford	-13	F	3
T37	Adrien Saddier	-13	F	3
T37	Dylan Wu	-13	F	3
T37	Rasmus Højgaard	-13	F	3
T37	Max Homa	-13	F	3
T37	A.J. Ewart	-13	F	3
T37	Adrien Dumont de Chassart	-13	F	3
T37	Seamus Power	-13	F	3
T37	David Lipsky	-13	F	3
T37	Davis Riley	-13	F	3
T37	Max Greyserman	-13	F	3
T37	S.H. Kim	-13	F	3
T50	Gary Woodland	-12	F	3
T50	Keith Mitchell	-12	F	3
T50	Alex Smalley	-12	F	3
T50	Max McGreevy	-12	F	3
T50	Chandler Phillips	-12	F	3
T50	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	-12	F	3
T50	Davis Chatfield	-12	F	3
T50	Daniel Berger	-12	F	3
T50	Tom Kim	-12	F	3
T50	Taylor Moore	-12	F	3
T50	John Parry	-12	F	3
T61	Denny McCarthy	-11	F	3
T61	Harry Hall	-11	F	3
T61	Matt Kuchar	-11	F	3
T61	Car Young	-11	F	3
T61	Zach Johnson	-11	F	3
T61	Ricky Castillo	-11	F	3
T61	Patrick Rodgers	-11	F	3
T61	Mac Meissner	-11	F	3
T61	Will Zalatoris	-11	F	3
T61	Billy Horschel	-11	F	3
T61	Zecheng Dou	-11	F	3
T61	Rafael Campos	-11	F	3
T61	Michael Brennan	-11	F	3
CUT	Brice Garnett	-10	F	3
CUT	Camilo Villegas	-10	F	3
CUT	Austin Eckroat	-10	F	3
CUT	Brandt Snedeker	-10	F	3
CUT	Taylor Pendrith	-10	F	3
CUT	Keita Nakajima	-10	F	3
CUT	Kris Ventura	-10	F	3
CUT	Bud Cauley	-10	F	3
CUT	Takumi Kanaya	-10	F	3
CUT	Doug Ghim	-10	F	3
CUT	Andrew Novak	-10	F	3
CUT	Davis Thompson	-10	F	3
CUT	Kurt Kitayama	-10	F	3
CUT	Sudarshan Yellamaraju	-10	F	3
CUT	Michael Kim	-9	F	3
CUT	Harry Higgs	-9	F	3
CUT	Chris Kirk	-9	F	3
CUT	Jason Dufner	-9	F	3
CUT	Hank Lebioda	-9	F	3
CUT	Adam Svensson	-9	F	3
CUT	Stephan Jaeger	-9	F	3
CUT	Kevin Roy	-9	F	3
CUT	Kevin Streelman	-9	F	3
CUT	Tony Finau	-9	F	3
CUT	Peter Malnati	-8	F	3
CUT	Beau Hossler	-8	F	3
CUT	Steven Fisk	-8	F	3
CUT	Lee Hodges	-8	F	3
CUT	Jesper Svensson	-8	F	3
CUT	Lanto Griffin	-8	F	3
CUT	Erik van Rooyen	-8	F	3
CUT	Matt Wallace	-8	F	3
CUT	Justin Rose	-8	F	3
CUT	Emilio Gonzalez	-8	F	3
CUT	Kevin Yu	-7	F	3
CUT	Danny Walker	-7	F	3
CUT	Alex Noren	-7	F	3
CUT	Patton Kizzire	-7	F	3
CUT	Brian Harman	-7	F	3
CUT	Dan Brown	-7	F	3
CUT	Michael Thorbjornsen	-7	F	3
CUT	Vince Whaley	-7	F	3
CUT	Emiliano Grillo	-7	F	3
CUT	Jeffrey Kang	-7	F	3
CUT	Sami Valimaki	-7	F	3
CUT	Frankie Capan III	-7	F	3
CUT	William Mouw	-6	F	3
CUT	S.T. Lee	-6	F	3
CUT	Aldrich Potgieter	-6	F	3
CUT	John VanDerLaan	-6	F	3
CUT	Kensei Hirata	-6	F	3
CUT	Marcelo Rozo	-6	F	3
CUT	Chan Kim	-6	F	3
CUT	Nico Echavarria	-5	F	3
CUT	Gordon Sargent	-5	F	3
CUT	Neal Shipley	-5	F	3
CUT	Jhonattan Vegas	-5	F	3
CUT	Mackenzie Hughes	-5	F	3
CUT	Chandler Blanchet	-4	F	3
CUT	Joe Highsmith	-4	F	3
CUT	Isaiah Salinda	-4	F	3
CUT	Mark Hubbard	-3	F	3
CUT	Patrick Fishburn	-3	F	3
CUT	Matti Schmid	-3	F	3
CUT	Sepp Straka	-2	F	3
CUT	Jackson Suber	-2	F	3
CUT	Michael Block	-2	F	3
CUT	Akshay Bhatia	-1	F	3
CUT	Brian Campbell	-1	F	3
CUT	Justin Lower	E	F	3
CUT	Charley Hoffman	E	F	3
CUT	Adam Long	E	F	3
CUT	Adam Schenk	+2	F	3
CUT	Jimmy Stanger	+3	F	3
CUT	Cam Davis	+3	F	3
CUT	Christo Lamprecht	+4	F	3
CUT	Alejandro Tosti	+5	F	3
CUT	Andrew Landry	+6	F	3
CUT	Pontus Nyholm	+10	F	3
WD	Luke Clanton	-	-
WD	Rico Hoey	-	-
WD	Ludvig Åberg	-	-
WD	Nick Dunlap	-	-