FORT WORTH, Texas – Last week’s PGA Championship was the final event in a five-week, seven-tournament test period that allowed players to use distance-measuring devices during competition rounds in an attempt to address pace of play on the PGA Tour, and the results from the experiment were mixed.
“Honestly, not really,” Rickie Fowler said when asked if rangefinders helped pace of play. “In certain situations if you were off-line, it makes it a little easier. Certain circumstances it helps speed up that shot, but the last few weeks I’d stepped off my number, [caddie Rick Romano] would shoot it, so our process didn’t change.