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If the PGA Tour needs some ideas for cracking down on pace of play concerns, then there is one man who could help.

That is former major champion Lucas Glover, who spent a recent plane ride jotting down a list of solutions to speed things up.

On Wednesday, he sat down for the latest episode of The Lucas Glover Show on SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio and sounded off on the glacial pace issue.

Before getting into it, he admitted “some of these seem small, some of them seem big,” but they should have been considered before making cuts to Tour cards.

From the 2026 season, only the top 100 players in the FedEx Cup standings will secure a tour card, as opposed to the previous 125.

It was cited as one way of tackling slow play and speeding up rounds on the PGA Tour, which Glover claims was simply an excuse.

Anyway, here’s what he had to say…

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1. Course markings: “Every sprinkler head should be marked, not by a Tour caddie that’s walking the course on Monday. This should be up to the Tour or the tournament, so that a caddie that gets in a weird spot or a player that gets in a weird spot isn’t hunting for yardage. That takes time.”

2. Distance-measuring devices (DMDs): “They can only help. Not everyone will use them all the time but it sure would help given the option.”

According to tour insider Dan Rappaport, the PGA Tour is set to trial the use of DMDs during competitive rounds.

3. Bunker rakers: “Every group needs a raker, just like the Open Championship. Have someone in each group rake the bunkers. Proper caddies take a lot of time and do an unbelievable job, as they should and as they need to, but it can cause backups.”

4. No honorary observers: “Honorary observers are a couple of people that the Tour puts in a group to walk inside of the ropes that probably work for the sponsor or are a guest of the sponsor. They get in the way, they don’t know where to walk off of the greens, they don’t know where to stand. A lot of times the group behind is waiting on them.”

5. Scrap sign bearers: “Everybody’s got a phone, everybody has leaderboard access…. you don’t need sign bearers anymore. They get in the way because they don’t know where to walk.

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6. Ban Aim Point: “Statistically, [Aim Point] hasn’t helped anybody make more putts since its inception on the PGA Tour. It’s also kind of rude to be up near the hole, stomping around figuring out where the break is in your feet. It needs to be banned, it takes forever.”

7. Eliminate golf carts: “Easily, the number one reason players back off golf shots is because a golf cart is going by or a golf cart stopping.

8. Drop circles: “Every obstruction should have a simple drop circle. If you’re up against [an obstruction] or it’s in the way, drop in the nearest designated area.”

Meanwhile, fellow PGA Tour pro Byeong Hun An has an even easier solution.

He recently wrote on X: “Giving penalty strokes will DEFINITELY help slow play.”


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John Turnbull A graduate of the University of Stirling, John joined the bunkered team in 2023 as a Content Producer, with a responsibility for covering all breaking news, tour news, grassroots content and much more besides. A keen golfer, he plays the majority of his golf at Falkirk Golf Club. Top of his 'bucket list' is a round of Pebble Beach... ideally in the company of Gareth Bale.

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