Slow Play Is Here To Stay! And Get Slower.

That's John Strege's "historical perspective" in his Monday Qualifier after reading some of the last week's accounts that the antics of late are finally going to tip the scales and force action against slow play.

• From Francis Ouimet, complaining about slow play in 1957: "It shouldn't take more than a few seconds to line up a shot. And on a green a player should be getting his line while someone else is putting. Maybe the big money the pros play for has something to do with it. There is so much at stake they take all the time in the world."

• Lanny Wadkins, from a 1992 story that Golf Digest's Jaime Diaz wrote for the New York Times: "The only thing slower than slow play is getting someone to do something about it."
It is the same old story, repeated ad infinitum, ad nauseam.

A depressing footnote, taken from the Glasgow Herald's coverage of the Scottish Amateur in 1929: "Play was slow. On an average it was taking three hours to the round."