THE EUROPEAN TOUR has stepped up its bid to combat slow play with the announcement of a new event for 2018 – the Shot Clock Masters.
This year’s innovative GolfSixes event, which featured entrance music for players, celebrity hosts and increased fan interaction, experimented with the use of a shot clock on one hole.
However, the tour’s latest addition to the schedule – taking place at the Diamond Country Club in Austria next June – will see every shot subjected to time limits in a first for professional golf.
The first competitor playing any given shot in each group will be afforded 50 seconds, with subsequent players getting 40 seconds. Each player will also have the right to call two ‘time-outs’ in each round, giving them double the usual allotted time.
Any player picking up a ‘bad time’ will incur a one-shot penalty.
“The 2018 Shot Clock Masters will be a fascinating addition to our schedule next year,” said European Tour chief executive Keith Pelley.
Not only will it help us combat slow play and reduce round times, it is also further evidence of our desire to embrace innovation.”
Bernd Wiesberger, Austria’s leading player, added: “The new shot clock format is an ideal way to focus on the issue of pace of play. The game of golf should definitely be faster and therefore this is a step in the right direction.”
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So FAI stands for Fascist Association of Ireland now. Seems like a case of them taking there ball and going home if they don’t like someone.
You see Roy was right aaaaaaaaaaaall. Along
I think it was more the baby-like behaviour of Keane that was the issue.
He was a great (albeit tough) player and thats what he should have stuck to.
If he had a complaint there was a ‘chain of command’ through which he should have taken his unhappiness.
To walk away from the National team during the finals was unforgivable and demonstrated nothing but immaturity and schoolyard bully thinking
+1
The FAI should be told to go screw itself.
What! They only ant to hear nice, pretty things? Since when did they get to stomp on free speech and dictate what can and can’t be said in the media?
Another case of gobschites with delusions of grandeur and power!
They should be told where to go!
Uh oh, Saipan all over again….
John Delaney – is he being groomed by Pat Hickey to take over the Olympics Ireland Job? Another golden circle. We have a great little country.
Prob a good news storey for Des Cahill now, he’ll come across as a more in-your-face type & hence prob more viewers/listeners
John Delaney there, pretending to be Alex Ferguson.
Please don’t say that Frank