'We Talk Endlessly About Slow Play As Though It's A Disease. It Isn’t, It’s A Symptom' – Could Technology Be The Solution To This Golfing Scourge?

Is technology the solution to slow play?.

Recently I was doing some newspaper archive research for an article on early Opens. I was looking at reports of the 1903 Open at Prestwick.

The correspondent for the Daily Telegraph noted (in a preview of the event) the timings for the first day. It showed that the last group for the second round’s play would not tee off until 6.12pm. That, the author pointed out, meant that play wouldn’t finish until “nearly half-past eight.”