LPGA announces another change to its Pace of Play Policy, making it even tougher
The LPGA has announced an additional change to its Pace of Play policy for the 2025 season. Beginning next week at the Ford Championship, the tour will add a season-long tracking element for holes timed.
Players who have 40 or more holes timed during the rest of the 2025 schedule (with the exception of the T-Mobile Match Play presented by MGM Rewards, U.S. Women’s Open, Dow Championship and AIG Women’s Open) will receive a fine.
This also will go into effect on the Epson Tour beginning on April 25 at the IOA Championship. On that tour, players who have 20 or more holes timed for the remainder of the season will also receive a fine.
“Looking at the data, we concluded that if a player had 40 or more holes timed over the season, that player contributed to a slower pace of play,” said LPGA Player President Vicki Goetze-Ackerman in a release. “We believe that this addition to the policy, along with penalty strokes being issued for plus times of +6 or greater, will increase the number of players who heed the initial warnings, leading to fewer players out of position and therefore timings.”
In February, the tour released a new Pace of Play Policy that introduced a one-shot penalty.
The current policy dished out fines for those who were 1 to 10 seconds over the allotted time and a two-stroke penalty for those who were more than 11 seconds over. The new policy gives a fine for those who are 1-5 seconds over, a one-stroke penalty for those 6 – 15 seconds over and a two-stroke penalty for more than 16 seconds.
In addition, players who tee off first on par 3s and reachable par 4s will continue to get an additional 10 seconds. The new policy, however, eliminates the additional 10 seconds that was given to players who are first to play from par 4 and par 5 tees.
The new policy was revealed at the first player meeting of the season in February at the Founders Cup. World No. 1 Nelly Korda’s reaction to the news: Finally.
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: LPGA adds another policy change to crack down even harder on slow play
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