Tiger Woods, one of the best golfers of all time has raised a concern about the conceptual design and the speed of play on the entire PGA tour. The world number one has raised concern and criticized the slow play on the PGA tour by some of the more “methodical” players. Woods in a newsletter to is fans said, “It’s been an ongoing problem on the PGA Tour for some time, and honestly believe the pace of play is faster in Europe and Japan.”
The reasons for raising such a concern was especially after the last match that he had played against JB Holmes, considered as one of the most methodical players on the circuit. Holmes has a pre-shot routine, which is actually a bit long. It includes four rounds of practice swings after which he performs several rehearsals of his hitting action before finally settling over his ball. Woods says, “The rules of golf insist on play proceeding “without undue delay” and there is where his problem lies.

At times a round can take five hours to complete, especially in the Major events in the US, and this is generally being the concern, but nobody has raised an issue other than Tiger Woods. It is for us to wait and see whether the association takes Woods seriously and finds an alternative or will this just remain as a comment.

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To win a golf tournament is to get rich instantly. Similar was the case when Sean O’Hair won the PODS Championship, collecting a tidy sum of US 954,000. The weather conditions had been horrible throughout the tournament and the standings of who would win were anybody’s guess. O’Hair defeated one of the frontrunners, Stewart Cink after Cink managed only a birdie on the first two holes to fall four behind. O’Hair on the other hand finished at four-under 280.

This is the second win for O’Hair who last won the 2005 John Derre Classic. Sean was quite behind at the end of the third round but managed to move ahead. O’Hair wrested the lead from Cink when he made a 32-foot putt for birdie on the par-three 16th hole to move to five-under and make a dividend from Cink’s mistakes on the first two holes and on the 16th hole. O’Hair hardly was seen as a threat to clinching the title, with Cink leading the third round and Geoff Ogilvy, Brandt Snedeker and Mayfair following close behind. O’Hair carded a two-under-par 69 to win the PODS Championship by two strokes. Although I am not a golfer myself and I am not head over heals about this sport, even I could not leave my seat when the final day match was in progress.

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