There always seems to be an inflection point each professional golf season, during which the slow play problem dominates the discourse on the PGA Tour. The issue isn’t a new one. It’s an age-old problem in the pro game. Everyone knows it: Golf can crawl.

The PGA Tour is taking a hard look at whether to allow rangefinders and publicize violations as part of a comprehensive study on pace of play and other enhancements to the game that have come out of a survey of 50,

The PGA Tour looks set to allow the use of rangefinders in its tournaments in an effort to cure the curse of slow play and improve the fan experience. The pace of play has been the major source of complaint from fans,