Kevin Na unhappy with the shot clock during the Crowne Plaza Invitational
Kevin Na made the headlines during the Players Championship because of his slow preshot routine that stretched his group to stay on the course for more than five hours during the final two rounds.
Thereafter, he was warned by the PGA Tour officials for slow play and, according to him, he did not mind that action.
However, something happened during the second round of the Crowne Plaza Invitational that really did bother him and he looked disappointed by the PGA Tour official’s behaviour of singling him out.
He, along with John Huh and Aaron Baddeley, were put on the shot clock right in between his round on Friday, and he recorded three bogeys thereafter.
Golf commentators believe that he became upset and the bogeys were the result of his mental disturbance that was caused by the shot clock.
"We were in position all day. We were waiting the first few holes. I'm constantly looking where we are in position,” he said.
“... Off the seventh tee we were doing fine. We struggled a little bit on eighth, the par-3, as a group because we had long shots and long putts coming in and we stand on nine and we get off the tee and they are telling us we are on the clock. I get on
nine green and I look down 10 fairway and they are on the green. After I putted on the hole I called them over and said, 'Look, we're in position, we shouldn't be on the clock.' That's all".
When he was asked about being singled out at the event, he tried not to talk about the issue and said ‘no comments’.
Yet, he did say that he was not upset after being warned for the slow play. However, he should have been given a chance to tackle the issue himself, rather than being placed on the shot clock.
Na is currently sharing the 42nd spot on the leaderboard after carding 70 and 71 in the opening two rounds of the event.
With a one-over par two-round score, he is 12 strokes behind the leader Jason Dufner.
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