Paul Goydos presents a solution for the slow pace of play ahead of the US Open
As the season is warming up for the second major of the year, the slow pace of play has become a major concern for the PGA Tour lately and the officials are trying to come up with solutions to cope up with the problem.
American golfer, Paul Goydos, a two-time PGA Tour winner, has come up with his own brand of solution.
Being part of the PGA Tour for almost two decades, Goydos has been through the thick and thin of the sport and has done reasonably well in the his long haul on the tour.
He said, "The answer is to find a way to time everyone. Officials can put two of the three people in a group on the clock but they can't penalize the person until they monitor the whole group for a period of time. But solutions cost money, and it's really just more of a weekend issue. When it comes down to it, we're talking about 15-20 minutes. What we're trying to do is educate people”.
Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem first raised the issue at the Players Championship this year and expressed grave concern over the longer playing time in the events.
Patrick Cantlay, the UCLA Sophomore has more or less the same views over the rectification strategy Goydos has formulated to curtail the slow pace issue and presented the case of his coach Jamie Mulligan who attempted to shorten Cantlay’s play time.
Cantlay said, "It definitely takes a long time to play our [NCAA] rounds”.
The PGA Tour is heading for the second major of the season, the US Open scheduled at Olympic Golf Club.
Qualifying rounds for the same are currently underway while top-60 on the Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR) will be automatically qualifying for the star-studded event in three-weeks time.
Born in Long Beach, California, Goydos turned professional in the year 1989 after graduating from Woodrow Wilson Classical High School, Long Beach State University.
Playing on the Nationwide Tour, his first victory came in the year 1992 when he bagged the Ben Hogan Yuma Open and finally made it to the mainstream PGA in the following year.
In his professional career, Goydos has won five events in all, two of them coming on the PGA Tour. His highest finish in a major event came in the year 1999 when he clinched a joint 12th in the US Open.
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