The PGA Tour has a serious pace-of-play issue that needs to be addressed soon.
CBS Sports on-course announcer Dottie Pepper scolded the pros for the atrocious final-round pace at last week’s Farmers Insurance Open, calling for the players to be “respectful” of the “fans, broadcast, and their fellow competitors.”
The problem reared its head again on Sunday at Pebble Beach.
During the final round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, Tom Kim became the latest golfer to face the ire of the broadcast for his slow play. This time, it was Golf Channel’s Frank Nobilo and others calling out Kim for taking over a minute to hit an approach shot into the par-5 sixth hole.
Kim wound up wiping the ball into the rock outline and had to take a drop, which led to some jabs from the broadcast.
“A little less waggle might have helped,” one broadcaster said.
“It was not worth the wait,” Nobilo chimed in.
