Top Players Living on Borrowed Time

Much has been said and written about the Achilles Heel of golf, slow play, but whilst the rest of us can pack in an 18-hole two-ball into a morning or afternoon, the top players are taking their time, and ours, with impunity and without sanction from officials who talk the talk but won’t walk the walk on a practice that is blighting the game as a spectator sport

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Written by Mike Wilson

Photography by AFP

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