Rules Official Has To Tell R&A Marker To Pick Up The Pace!

Matt Scott in the Telegraph reports that Saturday's first out Open participant, Joost Luiten, was accompanied by an unnamed "club pro" as his marker. And the marker held up Luiten!

The marker was permitted to play with him but quickly frustrated his companion.

“Frankly I could not understand much about this guy,” complained Luiten afterwards. “We had Tom Watson and Lee Westwood, two fast guys, behind us. After only two holes they were waiting behind us. That cannot be right and the referee told him that too.”