'Slow Play Is Often A Product Of Unrealistic Expectations, Not Flagrantly Bad Etiquette'

A golfer in the foreground waiting for another golfer behind him on the fairway to hit his shot, with two other golfers also watching.

Slow play remains a scourge of the modern game. There’s no worse feeling on the golf course than being stuck behind a four-ball playing at a leisurely pace and showing a flagrant disregard for the rest of the golfers on the course.

It’s a topic we’ve written about at length at Golf Monthly. From a 12-point action plan to solve slow play to articles on why players aren’t necessarily the problem and musings on whether fast play is equally as annoying, it’s a subject we’ve covered extensively.