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CALLER: Yeah. Since the COVID thing, since golf\u2019s been back, it\u2019s been one of the few things on television.<\/p>\nRUSH: Terry in Atlanta. You\u2019re on. Great to have you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Rush, I got a golf question for you. I know you love golf, and I do, but slow play drives me nuts. So let\u2019s say that the golf gods make you the czar of the PGA Tour. Tell me two or three things that you would do instantly to speed these guys up, like DeChambeau and Dustin Johnson, folks like that.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, you\u2019re talking about how to speed up the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n
RUSH: So, you\u2019re not concerned how long it takes you to play, you\u2019re concerned how long it takes you to watch a tournament take place on TV?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah. Since the COVID thing, since golf\u2019s been back, it\u2019s been one of the few things on television.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s true.<\/p>\n
CALLER: The guys I play with, guys you play with, we play pretty fast. I get down under four hours every time. But these guys are taking 15 practice swings, so forth.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, I hear you. My group, my bunch of guys, when we\u2019re on, we can do it in three, three and a half. And that\u2019s the way it ought to be. But, you know, we don\u2019t play like every tournament\u2019s the Masters. We\u2019re not reading every putt from 15 different angles on the green, and we\u2019re not doing everything, we\u2019re not pretending that we\u2019re any better than we are.<\/p>\n
These guys, it\u2019s their livelihood, it\u2019s their living, it\u2019s their money, and they\u2019re looking for every advantage they can, including psychological. And if the slow players can make the faster players screw up by making \u2019em impatient, then that\u2019s part of the gamesmanship that they\u2019re engaged in. I don\u2019t know what you could do to speed it up, short of penalizing people strokes for, you know, after they hit the green and however long it takes to putt out, put a time limit on it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: See, I\u2019m for the clock. The first guy who gets to his ball, you got 60 seconds. Next guy, he\u2019s got 45 seconds, playing in threesomes, next guy\u2019s got 30 seconds.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, but now you\u2019ve got a timer, or a series of timers — hang on here just a second.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: All right. Terry in Atlanta, you still there?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n
RUSH: What do you think about this? What do you think about letting \u2019em ride carts? You think that\u2019d speed it up enough?<\/p>\n
CALLER: It would help. It would certainly help. I know but many people would say then they\u2019re not athletes \u2019cause they\u2019re not walking, but it doesn\u2019t seem to hurt the senior tour.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Well, I know, but a lot of people think golf is not athletics anyway, that it\u2019s a skill of some kind. I disagree with \u2019em, but if the point is to speed the game up and you start messing around, you start putting people to the clock, that means you\u2019re gonna have timers. That means you\u2019re gonna have people screw up the timing. You\u2019re gonna have disputes over the timers.<\/p>\n
“Did they start the clock too soon?” The delay over looking back at videotape to see, did the clock start at the right time? It\u2019s gonna create a bigger mess than what you have now. The objective would be a good one, but the mechanism by which you put people on the clock would be challenge thing. I don\u2019t know there\u2019s much that you can do.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, I think you\u2019re right about a couple things. But, you know, I think that you look at, say, Brooks Koepka — and he plays very, very fast — and he\u2019s playing with a guy like DeChambeau. Don\u2019t you think that — like you said earlier — it gets in your head? It\u2019s gotta drive the guy crazy to sit there and watch him go through some of his gyrations of swings and so forth.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Who? You mean DeChambeau?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. I saw there was… I forget who did this. Oh, it was Rory Sabbatini. He was playing with somebody really slow. Sabbatini said, “To hell with it. I\u2019m just going to the next hole; screw this guy,” and he ended up finishing three holes ahead of the guy.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, I\u2019m sure you play ready golf with your guys, as we do.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Hell, yes, we do. You hit when ready!<\/p>\n
CALLER: What Sabbatini did would be the same thing.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, well, except, he didn\u2019t wait for the guy to finish. He got so frustrated; he didn\u2019t wait for him to putt. He didn\u2019t wait for the right order to take place. He just hit when he was ready, and he finished three or four holes ahead of the guy, and then the guy that was asked about. “Well, I don\u2019t blame him. I am a slow player.”<\/p>\n
Those are really tough things because, as I say, they\u2019re earning their living. They\u2019ve got their… A lot of those exercises are done to de-stress, to take pressure out. These guys are singular performers. There\u2019s no team. There\u2019s nobody else to rely on, and every one of them\u2019s different in terms of how they handle pressure and how they try to diffuse pressure.<\/p>\n
Particularly after a bad hole, after a bad putt, and I know there have been a lot of people who have experimented with speeding play up with the use of timers. It\u2019s been tested, I know, and it\u2019s broken down because you need so many of them, and you can\u2019t guarantee that they\u2019re all legit. When you have to go back and recheck a timer and make sure he started on time, it just adds to even more delays.<\/p>\n
But I really like that question. You know why? Because I\u2019ve never thought of myself as running the PGA or any other professional golf organization. So you forced me into a thought position that I have never, ever placed myself. You know, now I\u2019m gonna actually think about it even after the program is over, and I may come up with some ideas, \u2019cause this never comes up.<\/p>\n
When we play, if we\u2019re slow, it\u2019s because some people in front of us are slowing us down. It\u2019s never because somebody in our group is playing slow. So we never have to take steps to speed ourselves up, especially if we establishment the rule “hit when ready.” To hell with honors. Hit when ready. The purpose is to enjoy yourself out there, and nobody…<\/p>\n
I think one of the problems with golf, trying to get new people to play it, is it takes four hours, and that\u2019s just too long for a lot of people. So that\u2019s why the PGA is even experimenting with marketing the game, “Play 12! Play nine holes. You don\u2019t have to play 18. Not the PGA Tour, but just you when you\u2019re out there playing. Anyway, Terry, I appreciate it. I really do. Thanks much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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