There are only three players who have been penalised for slow play on the PGA Tour since 1995 and here they are

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Slow play has become a hot topic on the PGA and LPGA Tour, with several high-profile players demanding change.

Upon the conclusion of The Annika on the LPGA Tour last weekend, Charley Hull shared an extremely honest verdict on the slow play issue after rounds took nearly five hours to complete.

Nelly Korda has also shared her thoughts on slow play and what can be done to speed up rounds moving forward. The comments from the LPGA duo come just hours after Matt Fitzpatrick claimed slow play never gets dealt with on the PGA Tour.

And the 2022 US Open champion has a point. Since 1995, the PGA Tour has handed out just two penalties for slow play, the last one in 2011.

Glen Day 1995 Honda Classic

A rare slow-play penalty was handed out at the 1995 Honda Classic. Alabama-born Glen Day was penalised one shot during the third round.

54-hole leader Mark O’Meara is believed to have complained about having to wait for every shot and that the round took longer than four hours to complete. Day was forced to change his score from a 71 to a 72 as a result.

Day reached a high of 30th in the world rankings and won two PGA Tour events during his career. His best finish at a major came during the 1994 PGA Championship, where he placed T15.

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Miguel Angel Carballo and Brian Campbell at 2011 Zurich

The other PGA Tour penalty for slow play came during the 2011 Zurich Classic. Miguel Angel Carballo and Brian Campbell were both penalised one shot on the 14th hole.

Both players had been given bad times in the team event. Carballo initially went over his allotted time on the 12th hole before Campbell followed suit two holes later.

There hasn’t been a slow-play penalty handed out since on the PGA Tour.

LIV Golf set slow play example

Interestingly, LIV Golf may have set an example for the PGA Tour.

Although the breakaway league has only existed for two years, it has handed out more slow-play penalties than the PGA Tour has in the past thirty years.

Richard Bland has been cautioned twice for slow play, once in 2023 and again in 2024, the second coming at the Individual Championship at Bolingbrook Golf Club in Chicago.

Polish star Adrian Meronk was also penalised during the 2024 event in Jeddah. LIV’s stance on the issue could result in a far better product for fans to view moving forward.