{"id":436806,"date":"2025-09-18T18:36:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T18:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/?p=436806"},"modified":"2025-09-18T18:36:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T18:36:43","slug":"michael-kim-comments-on-dp-world-tour-pace-of-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/michael-kim-comments-on-dp-world-tour-pace-of-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Kim Comments On DP World Tour Pace Of Play"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the BMW PGA Championship, Michael Kim made his first appearance on the European Tour.\u00a0 He had a rough start and didn\u2019t make the cut for the tournament.\u00a0 After losing out on the tournament, Kim decided to compare and contrast the DP World Tour and the PGA Tour, taking some notes. \u00a0 He went to social media to share a couple of things. An interesting note he took was the one on the pace of play between the two tours.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

PGA Tour Pace Of Play<\/span><\/h2>\n

2025 has been the year that the PGA started cracking down on pace of play, also known as slow play.\u00a0 The success of the move so far is still up for debate, as there are people who don\u2019t think it was necessary, and others who think the PGA hasn\u2019t gone far enough.\u00a0 There are also players who are unfazed by the implementations, like Patrick Cantlay.\u00a0 He found himself on the shot clock and the leaderboard of shame at the BMW Championship<\/a>.\u00a0 Tournaments like the RBC Heritage saw the use of rangefinders to reduce time, and a Peru event saw the first penalty handed out.\u00a0 This is the environment Michael Kim was seeing on the PGA Tour, and he got to see how it was handled on a different tour.<\/span><\/p>\n

Michael Kim On The DP World Tour<\/span><\/h2>\n

During the BMW PGA Championship, Michael Kim remembered how the slow play crackdown on his home Tour and got a chance to see the pace of play in England.\u00a0 On his Twitter, Kim started by reflecting on how he played and how he can improve.\u00a0 He praised the Wentworth course for being a good blend of fun and challenge.\u00a0 Finally, Kim moved on to how the pace of play is handled on the DP World Tour.\u00a0 He is not impressed.\u00a0 In the post in question, Kim wrote<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFeel like the Euro Tour had a better reputation about slow play than the PGA Tour. Nope, same pace of play as the PGA Tour haha.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The pace of play in Europe isn\u2019t too different from that on the PGA, according to Kim.\u00a0 Rory McIlroy may be inclined to agree.\u00a0 Although there were some measures taken during the Irish Open, he found himself on the shot clock<\/a> despite being a pretty speedy player.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Although not a DP event, the Open Championship saw several complaints<\/a> for slow play, with hardly any consequence for it.\u00a0 The major left many players exhausted from the time spent on the field just waiting for everyone to play.\u00a0 This is what Michael Kim has been observing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Michael Kim Shows Major Issue In Golf<\/span><\/h2>\n

Based on what Michael Kim has noted at Wentworth, slow play is a universal issue in golf.\u00a0 The PGA is taking steps to mitigate the issue; however, there needs to be changes agreed upon across the board.\u00a0 If nothing is agreed on, whenever there is cross-play between leagues, like during a major, or like with Rory McIlroy during the Irish Open, then everyone will feel the effect of differing policies.\u00a0 For now, Michael Kim will continue playing in Europe, with the next tournament being the Open De France.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Main Photo Credit:\u00a0 \u00a9 Rafael Suanes-Imagn Images<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During the BMW PGA Championship, Michael Kim made his first appearance on the European Tour.\u00a0 He had a rough start and didn\u2019t make the cut for the tournament.\u00a0 After losing out on the tournament, Kim decided to compare and contrast the DP World Tour and the PGA Tour, taking some notes. \u00a0 He went to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5429,"featured_media":436807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,246,19],"tags":[8178,8127],"class_list":["post-436806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf","category-golf-news","category-pga","tag-bmw-pga-championship","tag-michael-kim"],"modified_by":"Taylor Craig","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436808,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436806\/revisions\/436808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}