Ready Golf, Tim Herron Edition

Doug Ferguson writes about all of the slow play talk and features this example of ready golf, a concept foreign to too many elite golfers who do not begin deliberations until a flag is placed in the hole...

Tim Herron took about two minutes to figure out how to play his second shot to the green on Friday of the Sony Open in Hawaii. His ball was in the rough, 187 yards to a flag tucked behind the bunker. Was the ball going to take off on him from that lie? How much? 6-iron or 7-iron? If it had been in the fairway, caddie Lance Ten Broeck told him it would be a smooth 6-iron. Aim at the corner of the trap and cut it back toward the flag? Play for the middle of the green?

The entire conversation took place while the group ahead was putting. As soon as the group left the green, Herron’s shot was in the air. That’s how golf is meant to be played. Beautiful.