{"id":648352,"date":"2026-05-17T09:43:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T09:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/648352\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T09:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T09:43:17","slug":"justin-thomas-disagrees-with-group-being-put-on-clock-in-round-2-of-pga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/648352\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Thomas disagrees with group being put on clock in Round 2 of PGA"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. \u2013 A cursory glance at social media is all it took to realize the pace of play at the PGA Championship is on the languid side of glacial with rounds on Days 1 and 2 drifting well past five hours.<\/p>\n

Policing pace of play, however, is not nearly as easy as those on social media seem to think.<\/p>\n

The most recent example of how nuanced pace of play can be on a demanding golf course with winds swirling to 25 mph came early Friday when the group of Justin Thomas, Keegan Bradley and Cameron Young were informed they were on the clock.<\/p>\n

Thomas and Bradley were seen on television coverage having an animated discussion with a rules official.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just didn\u2019t really agree with it. It\u2019s hard because it\u2019s kind of the whole time par thing. What is time par? How can time par on this course be the same when it\u2019s blowing 25 [mph] and the pins are tough, than if it\u2019s not? And does time par change every day?\u201d Thomas said. \u201cThere\u2019s just so many factors that go into it. We were behind. That wasn\u2019t our issue or being annoyed by it, it\u2019s just the fact that we weren\u2019t holding up the group behind us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thomas said his group \u201ccaught up\u201d on the next hole and were taken off the clock, but it was hardly an isolated incident. Alex Smalley, who was a shot off the early lead following a second-round 69, was also put on the clock midway through his round.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hard part to me with the whole pace-of-play thing is there\u2019s so much that goes into golf and there\u2019s so much that goes into hole to hole in terms of, are you hitting it close, are you able to tap it in, or you have to mark it, stuff like that, to where, are you holding the group up or are you not, to where it\u2019s very hard to make that call,\u201d Thomas said.<\/p>\n

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Maverick McNealy and Alex Smalley are the co-leaders heading into the weekend at the 108th PGA Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. \u2013 A cursory glance at social media is all it took to realize the pace…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-648352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}