Henrik: We Don't Need To Play Any Slower

His tone was reserved in part because Henrik Stenson has been on vacation and did not hear of Jason Day's 2017 resolution to play slower.

Now, Henrik is not a fast player when his game is off. When he's on, he plays at a very nice clip. But in talking with Charlie Rymer and Robert Damon on Morning Drive, Stenson, once over the surprise of hearing about Day's remarks, said the pros do not need to play slower. He also opens up about about his driver yip battles in the Inside The Locker Room segment.

Stenson also revealed to Matt Ginella that he's going into the design business and that his favorites courses are Emirates Golf Club and TPC Sawgrass.

Comments

[Ken Kuhlman]

Lerner got schooled on the subject of the PGA tour speeding up when he interviewed the commissioner . Honestly I find overly fast players can be rude. There in such a hurry. Personally I play too fast, would play better if I slowed a tad. My putting improved a great deal by my slowing down and sticking to my routine. I would love to see the media quit complaining about the tours pace of play. It would be a good time for them to mind there own business. As for pace of play in recreational golf.The biggest reason for slow play is people not being ready and spending too long looking for golf balls. Poor play and poor instruction, I blame the PGA for this along with golf architects and golf course maintenance. Example a bunker should not take ten minutes to rake after you about kill yourself getting in and out of it. Rough should not be so deep your ball disappears. And wooded areas should be cleaned up. I hate bushes on a golf course, a person will stare at for ten minutes just knowing thats where there ball is. So thats my rant. PGA pros could do a great deal for slow play just looking at there golf courses.

[Hawkeye]

I found Day's remarks as annoying as everyone else, but I feel that one thing always gets overlooked in the slow play debate: Players are slower today because there are more strokes to be gained by being more meticulous and analytical due to the better course maintenance. Peter Thomson said in an interview about ten years ago that nobody really tried to be a great putter in the 60's - holing a putt outside 20 feet was just as much luck as skill since the greens were extremely slow and bumpy by today's standards. But look at Jordan Spieth today. Does anyone seriously believe that he would hole as many 20+ foot putts as he does if he didn't spend such a long time factoring in all the variables such as slope, grain, speed etc? And is it reasonable to do all that in a 45-second timeframe?

But aside from that, Day was talking about execution, and I'm having none of that. If you're a pro and you know what to do, then just step up and effing do it.

[Jeff Warne]

If NBA players took a minute between free throws and we knew that improved their performanace, would we let them?
Of course not because there's a rule against it. Same should be true for golf-there comes a point where we as fans just don't want to wait any longer.nor do your playing partners. shockingly self centered comments

[Pops pacific]

I think what is imoirtant is that what Jason said that is important is that iwhat they do is their work. What I related to is if I'm a salesperson and getting ready for a sales presentation
Would I hurry thru the presentation and walk away without
The order?? I don't think so!!

[APGMC]

Who is this Robert Damon? He related to Johnny?

[Timex]

The commissioner said rounds in 2016 took the same time as rounds in 2004. If true why so much false rhetoric about players having slowed down?

[Designs]

I'll be sure to avoid the Stenson designed courses if he's inspired by the Emirates and Sawgrass. Yuck...

[Miss Priss!]

Do they play slowly on the LPGA tour? You know, the women's thing. Or do we care.

[BDF]

These guys are playing for a whole bunch of money - they don't need to play any slower, but I understand why it happens.

However, Joe 14-handicap doesn't need to take 90 seconds to go through some foolish pre-shot gibberish on a Sunday morning round to make sure he shoots 89. That's where the problem lies - Joe watches way too much Golf Channel.

That's the conundrum - everyone wants to improve, the instructors want you to improve, but taking that much time because Jason Day does makes everything less enjoyable. How does that get fixed?

[munihack]

Until the PGA tour enforces the time rule with a shot clock and penalty strokes it will remain the golf equivalent of Mark Twain's weather lament- everybody complains but does nothing about it.

[Press Agent]

@ Designs, you do that. And I'm sure they'll miss all that money you spend on green fees....

[dralbatross]

Give each player a total amount of time for each round plus a set number of seconds for every shot he shoots over par.
This time would be decided before each round by the tournament director taking into consideration, weather, crowds, length, difficulty etc

After the player has used up his allotted time have a buffer for 5 minutes where every minute he goes over he loses 1 per cent of his price check up to a maximum of 5 per cent per round and 20 per cent per tournament.
Make this number count towards the order of merit as well and redistribute this money to the players with the fewest time penalties

For every minute after those 5 minute per round issue a one shot penalty

Give each caddie a clock that lights up when the ref starts the clock, so that he can communicate to the player all the time where he is at.

Do I have to do everything by myself?

[PG]

http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=18467352

[Ken Kuhlman]

I cant understand why all these people who dont play the tour are worried about how fast the tour plays??????