The PGA Tour will finally apply to the slow golfers after facing the calls of Collin Morikawa and Justin Thomas on Tuesday to name and embarrass the worst criminals.
The tour maintains a list of the Dawdlers, but previously resisted the demands of making public details and almost never applies sanctions to the violations of its 40 -second shooting rule.
However, Commissioner Jay Monahan confirmed at the Florida players championship on Tuesday that they will begin to implement their data later this season in efforts to address a problem that has seen that some rounds extend far beyond five hours. They will try penalty blows in the Korn Ferry Tour and PGA Tour Americas feeding circuits.
While Monahan was strangely not compromised about whether serial criminals would be directly identified, the world no 4 Morikawa wants a complete dissemination and insisted that financial sanctions insisted on a deterrent element.
He said: 'I think that after talking with some boys, you just have to start giving the boys real sanctions, whether traces or fedexcup (points). What I have learned is that monetary fines are useless. We earn a lot of money, some frankly guys do not care.
'I don't know how much fines are, but any amount that may be, and I think they care more to play a good golf and make sure they reach the play-offs. That is (classification points) where it hits hard and I don't see any problem.
The head of the PGA Tour, Jay Monahan (in the photo) has declared that there will be a clamp in the slow players
Collin Morikawa (in the photo) is a high profile player who asked for something to do
Monahan also delivered an update on a potential fusion with the president of Liv Golf, Yasir Al-Rumayyan (right) and the president of the United States, Donald Trump (left)
'For me, there are no problems to let it out (name slow players). It will only improve things because then you will have a goal about yourself, exercise a little more pressure and I hope you pick them up, or that you will penalize yourself. It is very simple.
The world no 9 Justin Thomas added: 'I think it would be something that would be useful. I think we are progressing, but at the same time it can always improve. '
Despite the optimism around the rhythm of the game, the progression in merging discussions between the tour and the Saudi Public Investment Fund remains tediously slow. The conversations led by the president of the United States, Donald Trump, have not had the effect of desire for a working relationship between the PGA tour and the LIV circuit, with Rory Mcilroy admitting last week that an agreement is not “close.”
Trump's participation had initially been announced as a key, due to his influence on the United States Department of Justice, who was concerned that a fusion would violate the laws against competition. However, the practical difficulties of aligning two frantic tours have proven to be more complicated and seems fanciful that any combined schedule can be achieved before 2027, if it does.
Monahan tried to offer an optimistic evaluation, but was characteristically tight of the details on Tuesday. The way in which the two tours could fit, and in fact how the golf team could be incorporated into the landscape, it was ceded.
He said: 'President Trump is a lifelong golf fan. He firmly believes in the power and potential of the game, and has been extremely generous with his time and influence to help unite an agreement. He wants to see the game reunified. We want to see the game reunified.
'His participation has made the perspective of reunification very real. When in the midst of complex negotiations, particularly when it can be close to an advance, there are flows and flows in the discussion.
'The most important thing is the mutual respect we have built in recent years. We appreciate Yasir's innovative vision (Yasir al-Rumayyan, head of the PIF), and we can see a future in which we welcome our board and work together to advance the global game. As part of our negotiations, we believe that there is space to integrate important aspects of LIV golf on the PGA Tour platform. We are doing everything possible to join both sides.