When you come to think of it that is the secret of most of the great holes all over the world. They all have some kind of a twist. C.B. MACDONALD
The Kevin Na Playing Partner Penalty: .4 Strokes Per Round
/On Morning Drive this Sunday Charlie Rymer talked at length about the cruelty of a Kevin Na pairing because of the added burden it places on his playing partners. Robert Garrigus was too kind to go there, but his caddy Brent Henley concurred.
Well now Luke Kerr-Dineen and the GolfDigest.com team have crunched the numbers and determined that players average nearly a half-shot higher than their normal round scoring average when getting paired with one of the world's slowest golfers.
How'd it turn out? From the start of 2012 through the 2014 Valspar Championship, Kevin Na has played with 220 PGA Tour golfers. On average, those 220 golfers shoot about 0.4 strokes higher when playing with Na. That's almost half a stroke, meaning that if someone plays with Na in all four rounds of a tournament, he'll be expected to shoot 1.6 strokes higher than if he played with someone else.
Snedeker: I Slow Down To Ensure Fines For Slowpokes
/Valspar Wrap And Video Of Na's Great Shot, Minus The Routine
/“It ain’t fair playing with Kevin Na, It ain’t fair.”
/Hahn: "If you’re going to allow measuring devices, you might as well allow carts because that speeds up play."
/Our Prayers Answered: USGA Allows DMD's In Am Events
/The player experience?
Maintaining the challenge and spirit of the game while allowing distance measuring devices, as long as they don't measure that other stuff?