San Diego - Depends on who is promoting, the slow game of the PGA Tour can be addressed through a combination of severe punishment and public humiliation, or in the increasingly common avoidance, is merely a by-product of an outdoor sport and is unavailable.

It's a problem as old as the travel itself, and if there was a magical solution, the Tour would stumble upon it now. It is also worth pointing out that although the media (social and others) once again zeroed in a slow game, three independent players’ advisory committee meetings were held this week at Torrey Pines. On this topic didn't even appear.

Maverick McNealy sat in one of the PAC meetings as a member of the business committee, and although the organization had never talked about the rhythm of the game, he had ideas on the topic.

First, McNealy’s kindness: He has a degree in management science and engineering from Stanford, and he shocked many of the Tour’s profound thinkers who are now awarded when he identified inequality in the season-long points game last year.

For McNelly, who won his first tour in RSM Classic last fall, there is no doubt that the problem with slow races is the numbers.

"We played twice today - I don't know what the pace is, but we're moving. We've played Torrey Pines - If you want to build a golf course that takes a long time, you're building 7,900 yards from McNealy in After winning the third round of 68 at the Genesis Invitational, he brought him into 10 tie 10," McNeley said^Th place.

"If we could play twice more, the TV finishing time would be handcuffed. In fact, I was surprised by how much the TV window indicated. So if we had to finish the game at a certain time, we wouldn't be able to do it. Two chromosomes (larger cuts). If we play with two chromosomes, it will be a few hours of automatic (shaved). "

If the concept of "fewer players add up to faster rounds" isn't completely groundbreaking, consider that Saturday's pace at Torrey Pines averaged an hour faster than Thursday and Friday's games above. For McNealy, the need to require two chromosomes to increase the pace of the game goes far beyond simple numbers.

"(two plays) exposed slower players," McNeley explained. "When the rounds progress slowly, slow players will play slower performances, they will be covered up and there is no pressure. In today's two spots , we had to move. If you play a bad shot or two and you're scrambling to get back to the point. This forces slow players to play faster."

Some players, including Rory McIlroy, delayed the recent call to improve the pace of the game and told reporters this week: "We can do something to speed up, but does that require five Half an hour to five hours (minutes) of five hours (minutes), I don’t think this will make such a surprising change.”

While most people will agree with McIlroy that a 15-minute improvement won't do much, the average shaving round will certainly be eye-catching, for McNeley, it's on the track that starts next season The smaller areas on the track match up.

"It's an out-of-the-box idea, but we should have 60 layoffs because we're playing so many players over the weekend. If 78 players advance now, we're essentially a wave of 78 players (player field) .” McNeley said. “We have made huge deals on smaller areas due to the pace of the game, down to 120 or 132 next year, but that only solves Thursday and Friday. If there are 78 people spending on weekends, Saturday and Sunday , When most people are watching, the broadcast window is the most important, then we are still playing with big waves.”

McNealy went on to explain that unlike the Tour's move to smaller areas starting in 2026, this radical change also forced the Tour to cut its fully exempt members, down from its current top 65 players and tie Go to the top 60, instead of 't take away the game chance.

"Everyone still plays. Making the field smaller can only increase the pace of the two rounds, making the cuts slightly smaller, and improving the pace of the game over the weekend," McNeley said.

McNealy believes that slow games can be solved by quickly solving slow games, and sometimes there will be time, such as Thursdays at Torrey Pines, with waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves of waves , which led to the most difficult scoring conditions of the year, and long rounds were inevitable. .

"I set off for the last time on Thursday and hit nine holes in the side rain, which was a very long day because we've been doing something because the conditions are hard," McNealy said. "It's still giving good things," There is no way to go faster and faster while trying. These conditions are not conducive to anything other than six hours (rounds).

Two days later, under the bright blue Southern California sky, McNealy quickly collapsed in a round, which took less than four hours to complete: “Playing disaccharide, for a three-pointer It was a very fun and enjoyable experience,” he smiled.