Tiger Woods once offered his solution to stop slow play on the PGA Tour as the issue comes up again at the Valspar Championship

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Unfortunately for the PGA Tour, there seems to be as much discussion about slow play as anything else at the moment.

With the Arnold Palmer Invitational and Players Championship taking place over the last two weeks and the Masters Tournament coming up next month, the focus should be on the golf.

However, the issue of slow play is overhanging every PGA Tour event this season, including the ongoing Valspar Championship.

Some players didn’t finish their opening rounds at the Valspar on Thursday, even though there was no stoppage throughout the day.

It’s clearly an issue that needs fixing and many top players have suggested solutions. Here’s what Tiger Woods had to say.

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Tiger Woods’ solution to the PGA Tour’s slow play problem

The slow play debate has definitely ramped up over the past year or so but it’s not a new problem for the PGA Tour.

Woods was asked about the issue back in 2020 and he proposed an interesting solution that golf fans will surely agree with.

“I think that the easiest way to fix slow play is that when you get your first bad time, you get shots added to your score,” he told GOLFTV.

“That’s a huge incentive because it would cost guys lots of money and they are going to play faster.”

The introduction of penalties would definitely work because, as Woods points out, players would be really incentivized to pick up the pace.

The only issue is whether the slower players on the Tour would agree to such a drastic change with their earnings at stake.

What other PGA Tour players have said about slow play

Woods is not the only player to have weighed in on the debate. Collin Morikawa recently suggested adding strokes to the scores of the slowest players.

Meanwhile, Sam Burns said that FedEx Cup points should be at stake as that would concern PGA Tour stars much more than monetary fines.

Justin Thomas, who admitted that he’s on the slow side, did not go so far with his idea, simply advocating for every player’s timings to be displayed in the locker room.