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At best it's a tournament that is extremely difficult to win. Each shot needs to be carefully played and when it's windy it's at it's worst.


Guan Tianlang, a 14 year old from China (the youngest player in the Masters for over 100 years), is in the tournament and was assessed a one stroke penalty for slow play. It's very rare that a penalty gets assessed, even in a major. You have 40 seconds to take your shot when it's your turn to play.

 

You can do a lot in 40 seconds...have a sip of water, eat some cookies and have a nice, if quick coversation with your caddie. But if your playing golf in a major...I would think you need to focus on the shot. He had been warned several times during his round and finally the officials had to impose the rule.

 

I can think of a bunch of players who need that rule. Especially when they are in front of me :)

 

What do you think?

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Fred Klein

Norman, I think we should add this to the rules for our 6/10 Golf and Tennis Outing at Cold Spring CC. Details to right.
Norman Spizz

We have someone from the club who does the monitoring. The only thing that bothers me more about slow players in front of me are slow players playing with me
Corey Bearak

If applied on 6/10, at what point do we start counting? How about a chess like rule so you get 12 minutes to apply across the 18 holes and if you use it all up, the tourney disqualifies you?

Submitted by Linda_Newman on Sat, 04/13/2013 - 00:17

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Linda Newman

Yay for a fourteen year old, he's the guy to watch. Let's give him ten years and then talk about it. Gotham with be 26!
The Webmaster

Added question… Should Tiger play on or not?

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