{"id":808248,"date":"2026-10-20T04:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T04:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/808248\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T04:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T04:32:18","slug":"lpga-slaps-carlota-ciganda-with-slow-play-penalty-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/808248\/","title":{"rendered":"LPGA slaps Carlota Ciganda with slow play penalty (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tThe scourge of slow play returned on the LPGA Tour in Shanghai \u2013 and there was a familiar culprit\u2026<\/p>\n

She is as notorious for her deliberate and tedious approach on the LPGA Tour<\/a> as she is for her incredible nerve in Solheim Cup duels<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And not for the first time in her impressive career, Carlota Ciganda was slapped with a costly two-stroke penalty for slow play in the Buick LPGA Shanghai.<\/p>\n

As reported by Sky Sports\u2019 Richard Kaufman<\/a>, the Spanish veteran was found to have taken too long on the par-4 13th hole during the third round at Sheshan International Golf Club.<\/p>\n

The LPGA is clamping down on slow play, with a new policy<\/a> that states 1-5 seconds over allotted time is worthy of a fine, with 6-15 seconds a stroke penalty and more than 16 seconds resulting in two shots being knocked off the scorecard.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s exactly what happened to Ciganda, whose par-four became a double-bogey six. She bounced back with back-to-back birdies to put herself back in contention in the $3.2 million event. Ciganda finished in a tie for 5th after a 2-under par final round on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Notably, however, this is not the first time Ciganda has been penalized for egregious slow play. At the 2023 Evian Championship, Ciganda was disqualified after losing an appeal against a two-stroke penalty and refusing to sign her scorecard.<\/p>\n

Ciganda was not the only player to be found foul of slow play in China. Solheim Cup rival Yealimi Noh also received a penalty and ultimately finished in a tie for 32nd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The scourge of slow play returned on the LPGA Tour in Shanghai \u2013 and there was a familiar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-808248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}