Bryson DeChambeau In Favour Of Slow Play Sanctions - "I Love It"
The Golfing Scientist says he loves the European Tour's new tougher slow play rules
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The Golfing Scientist says he loves the European Tour's new tougher slow play rules
Bryson DeChambeau In Favour Of Slow Play Sanctions - "I Love It"
When many golf fans think of Bryson DeChambeau, the words 'slow' and 'play' will likely come to mind.
We see it in plenty of our comments on social media about the Golfing Scientist's slow play, and it all stemmed from around this time last year.
DeChambeau was playing in the Dubai Desert Classic where a long conversation with his caddie was being show on TV.
They were discussing things like 'air density' and it led to Brooks Koepka telling the Golf Monthly podcast that slow play is "embarrassing."
DeChambeau was then filmed taking well over two minutes to hit a putt during The Northern Trust in August on the PGA Tour.
This, again, led to wide social media criticism of the American, forcing him to release a statement vowing to speed up after the PGA Tour released a statement of their own on slow play.
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He is once again playing in the Middle East this week where he was asked about new tougher sanctions on slow play breaches introduced by the European Tour.
He is fully in favour of them and maintains that he has now sped up.
Partly because he is hitting it so far.
"Considering how far I'm hitting, I don't think that will be an issue anymore," he said.
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"I love it. I love it. I told you guys, even back at -- on the PGA Tour, when stuff was happening, I told you guys, I welcome it.
"I was playing under the rules and there was no rhyme or reason to be called out, other than the fact that it looked like it was a really, really long time that it took, and it was, absolutely. I'm not saying it wasn't.
"But I was playing under the rules at that point in time, and there's no reason or why I should have been given so much heat, considering other things that had occurred that day and previous days of other people that I played with and other things that occurred.
"It's just .01 per cent of the time that that happens on Tour, which it happens literally with everybody out there. They just caught it on camera at that specific moment in time.
"To be called out like that was kind of weird, but it is what it is and I take it and I understand it.
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"All I'm doing is my absolute best to be better, and that's what I look forward to this year is, again, like I said, a new me, a new person, and a way that's going to represent all tours, all golf in general in a positive way to help grow the game.
"That's what I've always been about is trying to shine a light on the game of golf and not push people away, with developing the one-length irons, having a new way of swinging the golf club and doing all these different things that look weird, but have been a massive benefit to the game, that's what I'm about.
"So when considering change like that, I welcome it."
Related: European Tour increases severity of slow play breaches
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Elliott Heath is our Senior Staff Writer and has been with Golf Monthly since early 2016 after graduating with a degree in Sports Journalism. He manages the Golf Monthly news, features, courses and travel sections as well as our large Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages. Elliott has interviewed some huge names in the golf world including Sergio Garcia, Thomas Bjorn, Bernd Wiesberger and Scotty Cameron as well as a number of professionals on the DP World and PGA Tours. He covered the 2022 Masters from Augusta National as well as four Open Championships on-site including the 150th at St Andrews. He has played 35 of our Top 100 golf courses, with his favourites being both Sunningdales, Woodhall Spa, Old Head and Turnberry. He has been obsessed with the sport since the age of 8 and currently plays at West Byfleet Golf Club in Surrey, where his handicap index floats anywhere between 2-6. His golfing highlights are making albatross on the 9th hole on the Hotchkin Course at Woodhall Spa, shooting an under-par round, playing in the Aramco Team Series on the Ladies European Tour and making his one and only hole-in-one at the age of 15 - a long time ago now!
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