The over-praised “While We’re Young” campaign has been grabbing a lot of the headlines, but the United States Golf Association isn’t the only tastemaker in our business that’s trying to address pace-of-play issues.
Golf Digest is collaborating with the PGA of America and other groups to promote Time for Nine, a well-intentioned but fundamentally flawed idea (a shorter round isn’t necessarily a better round), and the non-profit Three/45 Golf Association, which takes its name from what it believes is the length of an ideal round, is trying to collect pledges from golfers with a need for speed. Most recently, Troon has unveiled its Troon Values Your Time program, which establishes time standards and delivers a series of gentle reminders to golfers about heeding them. Our question to all of these groups: What took you so long?