Stacy Lewis Wins Scottish After Not Letting Herself Complain About Dreadful Pace Of Play

Telegraphing another long day with her slower peers at the Renaissance Club, Stacy Lewis vowed Sunday to not complain to her caddie.

This is what it has come to.

Lewis prevailed in the Aberdeen Standard Investments Ladies Scottish Open after four-player playoff that included Azahara Munoz, Cheyenne Knight and Emily Pederson.

Here is what she said after Saturday’s tepid round, from Beth Ann Nichols:

“I think the biggest challenge for me tomorrow is staying in what I’m doing,” Lewis, “and the pace of play is dreadfully slow, and that doesn’t play into my favor. People I’m playing with are pretty slow.”

And she was right, but as The Scotsman’s Martin Dempster reports, Lewis made a vow and channeled a Taylor Swift song to avoid getting sidetracked by her slower playing partners.

The final group took five hours and 16 minutes to complete their round. “It does,” said Lewis of that taking some of the gloss of an enthralling title tussle. “It shouldn’t take that long to play. I knew it was going to; that’s the sad part. I do think an effort needs to be made across the board to play faster. I’m sure it couldn’t have been fun to watch on TV. I’ve been an advocate for changing our pace of play, getting people to play faster for a long time, and we’re still going the other way unfortunately.”

The course did play much tougher than last year when the men were there for the Scottish and the hole locations were referenced as pretty difficult by the announce team. Still, to have a player so openly saying something and no one is able to do anything, is pretty bizarre.