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.
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China’s Yan Liu was handed a two-stroke slow-play penalty Friday local time on the 16th hole of her second round at the Amundi Evian Championship. It was on the seventh hole at Evian Resort in France. She made a double-bogey 7 on the par-5 hole and missed the cut by three shots.
Following that double bogey she then bogeyed the next hole and closed with a birdie, but that stretch ultimately is what cost Liu a chance at playing the weekend at the fourth LPGA major of the year.
The LPGA updated its pace-of-play policy earlier this year to make it stricter after players often called for it last year. The new policy gives a fine for anyone who is 1-5 seconds over the allotted time limit, a one-stroke penalty for anyone 6-15 seconds over and a two-stroke penalty for a player taking longer than 16 seconds over time.
There have now been four slow-play penalties since that policy was released in February—two of the one-stroke variety and two were two-strokes, including Liu in France. Chisato Iwai was handed a two-stroke penalty during the second round of the Black Desert Championship in May.
