"He believed in playing by the rules. He was much too young and much too good to have this happen to him."

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Ron Sirak on Doug Brecht's passing.

We lost not only a super person, but someone who had the integrity and courage to tackle slow play.

During one of our many chats in his rules cart, Doug gave me this amazing statistic. He said that on the Champions Tour, the time elapsed from when the pin is removed and putting begins to when it is replaced when putting is completed is three minutes and 15 seconds.

"On the PGA Tour, it is 3 minutes and 30 seconds," Doug told me. Then, with a hard look at me he said: "What do you think it is on the LPGA?" With wide-eyed wonder and a head shake of disgust he delivered the punch line: "Five minutes. That's 27 minutes a round lost to the PGA Tour just on the greens.