DeChambeau and Stenson take a swing at Open slow play policy
During Thursday's first round of The Open, rounds were inching towards six hours. On day three, DeChambeau, and playing partner Nathan Kimsey, were put on the clock by an official as they came down the 17th.
'I was moving my butt as fast as I could,' said DeChambeau.
Despite his ticking off, the former US Open champion, who eventually signed for a 68, actually welcomed the intervention as it allowed him to advocate for more stringent pace of play policies.
'The solution? It's very simple,' said the 31-year-old. 'You eventually time everybody for their entire round.
'Nobody wants to do it because people are too scared to get exposed, which I am an advocate for. I'd love to be timed, and I have no problem with that.
'I think it would be fairer towards everybody. If somebody is playing slower, the guy can go up to him and say 'Hey, man, you're over par with your time'.
'All you do is you just time them for every single shot. It's not rocket science. I hope there's a better system out there at some point in time.'
Henrik Stenson, The Open champion in 2016, was also put on the clock and took a while to emerge from the recording hut after a 'vent' at the official, Mark Litton.
'The first round took about an hour over the allotted time,' said Stenson, after posting a 69 in round three. 'The second round was four to five minutes over.
"I joked to the others guys and said, 'we just have to wait until halfway through Saturday or Sunday and someone is going to come up to you and say that you're two minutes over and they're going to start pushing you on.' That's exactly what happened.
'If you can play an hour over time scheduled in one day, then all of a sudden two minutes is of huge importance the next day, it feels a bit inconsistent to me.'
The debate will rumble on.
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