"They don’t ever assess (stroke) penalties and the fining thing, it takes four or five months before you get one 20 grand fine."

Andrew Both on slow play:

As anyone who has attended a tournament lately will attest, it is almost painful watching a professional tournament on site.

Ouch. Nice to see this theme picking up steam rapidly, eh?

Both also shares this from Matthew Goggin:

“It’s brutal,” Goggin said. “Slow players can affect fast players but fast players don’t affect slow players. Fast players just have to deal with it.

“Slow players can torture everyone in the group by not letting anyone get into a rhythm, either their playing partners or the three or four groups behind them. We’re all sick of slow players, we all know who they are.”

There have been several suggestions as to how to speed up play, including smaller fields and easier hole locations, but the biggest problem may be that the penalty for slow play on tour is so small.

“They don’t ever assess (stroke) penalties and the fining thing, it takes four or five months before you get one 20 grand fine,” Goggin said.