WATCH: Scottie Scheffler takes five minutes to hit shot at US PGA

Brooks Koepka looked unimpressed as Scottie Scheffler somehow took almost five minutes to hit a pitch shot in the first round of the PGA Championship.

There was confusion in the frost-delayed opening round at Oak Hill Country Club as Scheffler took the glacial approach when lining up his wedge shot from the deep rough.

The incident happened on the short par-4 14th, Scheffler’s 5th, when the world No.2 twice walked to and from his ball to the green and then seemed unsure whether it was actually his turn to play.

It is also unclear if the American was waiting for the group in front to tee off on the 15th before playing his shot.

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The joint pre-tournament favourite appeared to raise his hands into the air in apology to playing partners Koepka and Gary Woodland, indicating he wasn’t aware that it was his turn to play, but he was still ponderous when he did realise he was up.

Just yesterday, Koepka said it was time to start handing out shot penalties for the worst offenders of slow play.

And the four-time major champion gestured in apparent frustration at the time it was taking to complete the 14th amid Scheffler’s loitering.

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Scheffler did go on to get up-and-down for a valuable birdie, but his pace of play was clearly a cause for consternation with the issue under the spotlight at Oak Hill.

Koepka, chasing his third PGA Championship title in Rochester this week, has already outlined his solution for the perennial slow play problem.

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“I would start stroking guys,” he said in Wednesday’s pre-tournament press conference. “If you are going to take that long, you have to get stroked.

“There’s a lot of guys out here that take their time. I think it is a problem. Technically in the rule book it says you have 40 seconds to hit your shot. I think that’s what it is. If you are taking over, technically you’re breaking the rules, right?”

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