We so enjoyed reading all your articles on the issue of slow play (“Change of Pace,” February 10, GGP). We have cared about this issue for a few decades, and we feel the most important solution is not dealt with. It’s to train and coach players’ routines and to be more ready. For the elite players the “slow” habits start in junior and college golf.
We put together a Pace of Play Training PDF for players and coaches/teachers to use (free of charge). Please share with anyone who you think should use it.
Pia Nilsson and Lynn Marriott
Scottsdale, Arizona
Nilsson and Marriott are the co-founders of Vision54 Golf Academy.
How does anyone know if the LIV players are still some of the best in the world (“Reunification beckons despite few details,” February 17, GGP). Many were when they left. Are they still? They play 54-hole demonstrations without a cut on mediocre courses. Do they still have that competitiveness they once had or have they just become fat cats looking at an easy payday? I think your comment on contract expiration was on the mark. Now they want to come back [to the PGA Tour] because the [LIV] money is coming to an end and very few care about their product.
Charlie Miller
Westport, Connecticut
I could not disagree more with your article (“Hyperbole undermines LIV’s leader,” February 17, GGP). To say LIV events would rank below an average PGA Tour event is absurd. The only data for that position is flawed since as you mentioned LIV tournaments don’t garner OWGR points. I don’t care whose fault that is, whether they should or should not, or even when it may change. Great golf is being played. If you don’t recognize the amount of world-class talent on the LIV tour and only use OWGR rankings to justify your argument, then I guess there will be no rational discussion.
Clearly there are a handful older pros (former major winners and Ryder Cup stars) at LIV who are past their prime. No argument here. I would contend that Patrick Reed, Dustin Johnson, Marc Leishman and many others are still world-class players and would still be in the top 50 in the world had they not left the PGA Tour. I never understood the hate and vitriol from players, fans, and media against the guys who went to LIV. Especially when almost everyone would do the same thing if they were offered life-changing money to do the same job for a different company.
Unfortunately bitterness and negativity seem to own the times in which we live. As many do, I hope we get the best players in the world on the same course more often. The reason people are saying that – including the poster child (emphasize child) for the PGA Tour Rory (McIlroy) – is that everyone knows how many great players are not playing the PGA Tour. Although I disagreed with most of your article, it was interesting and worth my time.
H. Lee Howard
Atlanta, Georgia
Thank you for your article (“Hyperbole undermines LIV’s leader,” February 17, GGP). Let performance do the talking, not the mouth of the LIV bigwig.
John Cardwell
Westerville, Ohio
The seventh hole at historic Royal Aberdeen is named “Blackdog,” famously the opening track (spelled “Black Dog”) on Led Zeppelin IV, which it predates by nearly two centuries (“Divot: 'Heaven' or hole-y hell?,” February 17, GGP).
Richard Fisher
Harlech, Wales
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