PGA Tour player gives his thoughts on rangefinders being allowed at the RBC Heritage Classic after three days of play

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The PGA Tour have made an effort to improve the pace of play at the RBC Heritage this week.

It has been an ongoing debate for months, with players, pundits and fans sharing different opinions.

Collin Morikawa had perhaps the most ruthless idea to address the slow play problem, suggesting that players need to lose strokes and FedEx Cup points.

The PGA Tour are clearly hesitant to apply such harsh work penalties, coming up with other ways to improve the situation, including the use of rangefinders.

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PGA Tour player says slow play not an issue at RBC Heritage

PGA Tour player Brian Campbell has noticed a difference in speed after three rounds at the RBC Heritage.

“It’s interesting,” he explained. “I feel like we’re running out there. I feel like we’re playing really fast. I know we played… I’m not sure if it was yesterday or the day before, we played in like 3 hours and 50 minutes.

“They’re getting what they want. We’re playing really fast. I know the rangefinder definitely helped us on 16. We were on 10 fairway, so having a rangefinder in that situation definitely sped up play.”

Yet, Campbell revealed that the rangefinders haven’t actually made a huge difference, albeit they’ve definitely been useful in certain situations.

He added: “Yeah, we’re only using it to really see where the ball ends up, and then maybe a few times to just check numbers if we’re kind of way off the fairway or stuff like that. So not a ton, but a few times.”

Keeping rangefinders is no-brainer decision for PGA Tour

It will take a lot more than just Campbell’s verdict to convince people that slow play is no longer an issue on the PGA Tour.

However, his comments at the RBC Heritage are certainly encouraging, and it’ll be interesting to see if any other players say similar.

If the consensus is that rangefinders do speed things up, which you would expect, then why not keep them in the bag at every event?

It would be an ideal scenario for the PGA Tour not to have to do anything drastic.