Jordan Spieth, Richard Bland & More: 5 Pros Who Were Penalized for Slow Play
The new 2025 schedule, apart from bringing in some record-breaking performances at the event, also brought a long-back issue of golf into the limelight, which is slow play. The last few events saw a furious side of fans as the final rounds of the PGA Tour event took more than 5 hours to complete. Even with the ongoing TGL league, which features a shot clock of 40 seconds. Fans have started to compare it with traditional golf and requested the shot clock to be incorporated into traditional golf as well.
Not to forget, there is a rule for slow play. Rule 5.6b penalizes players for slow play and the allotted time for a shot is 40 seconds. Even though there might not be many instances for the fans, but golfers have witnessed the penalty for slow play. Here are 5 professionals who got penalized for slow play.
The world no.1 in 2016, Jordan Spieth apart from the applause for reaching a career-high also faced a slow play “monitoring” penalty. During the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, Spieth took too long on the putting greens for which he was told that he incurred a monitoring penalty. The new system just went live on Tuesday, while it was in action on the first round of the HSBC Championship, which took place on Thursday.
