Distance measurement devices receive ‘mixed review’ as PGA Tour estimates the test period

Fort Wort, Texas – last week’s PGA championship was the final event that allowed players to use devices for measuring distance during the competitive round to address the PGA tour, and the results from the experiment were mixed.

“Sincerely, not really,” Rickie Fowler said to the question of whether the assortment helped the pace. “In certain situations if you were out of the network, it’s a little easier. Certain circumstances helps to accelerate that shoot, but I would recall from my number last few weeks, so that he would throw it out.

“I can see (the decision to continue using any way) that goes any way. All at home, using a distance measurement device, his part of their usual routine. But the tradition of the match. I do not have a certain opinion.”

The test period began at the last month’s RBC inheritance, and although the PGA championship was not the official used in the championship (DMDS), and there are no clear conclusions, most of them arranged about at least one thing – did not hurt the pace of the game.

“I don’t know that we can definitely say that it improves the pace of the game and I think that’s why it believed it was really important to stop using them;” He said the test period for a reason, “Gary Young, senior vice president of rules and competition.” They had this great toy; If we rest from them, we are more likely to get feedback. Like, hey, we really felt like they helped us and they helped us. “

The tour planned to send players and the bathtub after the test period, and the player’s advisory council was set to review the members and the general response of members at the previously scheduled meeting next week on the monument.

The young spent most of the early week in the colonial country club spoke with players and staff about measuring devices and said he got a “mixed bag” response.

“A lot of them feels like what separates is really well as well as the cadet, the opportunity to calculate those corners correctly,” youth said. “And then you had the other side that said, if it was a speedy game, we should use them.”

Young people stated about the use of DMD that generally differ, and veterans do not generally support the rules that would permanently allow them to compare to relatively younger players who are conditioned to use an assortment during the tournament.

“I personally don’t like me, I like to walk my yard and still a little old school, but I understand why we try to do it, trying to shave a few minutes from the circle,” said Camilo Villegas this week in Charles Schwab Challenge. “But at the same time if we shave two or three minutes to be our goal? I don’t know. I would like to return and analyze the data and look at the numbers. See what happened.”

Most agree that there are two areas that have helped the outstanding shots on which there were several reference points, and for shorter shots that usually require or players to get out or caddy to pace or Caddy or Caddy.

Young people are planning to look at individuals to view individual players players during the period of testing and using DMD, whether it just used a player, Caddy or both.

What remains for seeing is whether the DMDS had a significant impact on the tempo, which has become a priority for tour after feedback from the fans. Many players and the tubs suspect that DMDS will make a significant difference and some worries permanent policy change could even hurt the pace of the game.

“We definitely saw that it’s an additional step in the process, not reducing the steps,” youth said. “I would say to those who are not in support of this that is nothing more than added an extra step.”

Anecdotal, young people said that there was an incident on Korn Ferry Tour – who held a similar test period with DMDS as well as a dramatic change of secondary circle – where the player received “bad time”, because they used a distance measurement.

“A group of players was timed and it was because he returned to shoot a distance (with azifer) the second time he made him go to his time,” he said young. “It would be negatively to have them. However, some would say that while their group was timed, DMDS helped the process in processing this information faster.”

Although membership is divided in whether DMDS could actually help in the pace, consensus among players is a change in time policy on Korn Ferry Tour will have a higher impact. The new policy provides a single fine sentence for first “bad weather”. Previous Politics estimated a sentence for one shot for another “bad weather”. The player gets “bad weather” when they cross the assigned time to play the recording, which varies depending on where the playback order is played depending on.

“(Korn Ferry Tour) definitely saw and improve their tempo game and have seen less time,” said young. “It was really important to stop the use of DMD and continue to change the policy of tempo-playing in order to determine who had a higher effect.”

The Tempo game on tour – which was always slow, at the best time – further became a conversation point earlier this season on AT & T pebble beach Pro-AM when Frank Nolf Nibilo watched Tom Kim. After Kim needed more than a minute to appeal his approach, shot in the sixth hole of Par-5, Nobilo said, “it wasn’t worth waiting.”

The phenomenon from the media and the public appeared to be echoed with players, as well as a threat to a stall of greater change in the pace of the game.

“We saw that our pace of playing is improving across the street, because this came to the pebble beach. I would say, pretty, we played faster,” said faster. “Why is it? Some of them just knows a little more from the player to make something else down to the line not to want.

Whether remotely or even impact changes belong to the PGA tour remains to be seen, but the digestive DMD digestive period showed that the change is coming.