Four-time major winner Rory McIlroy uses a rangefinder on the practice range at a charity golf event, the same sort that will be allowed at a major for the first time at next week's PGA Championship AFP/Mike EhrmannKIAWAH ISLAND, United States: Rangefinders will make their major debut at next week's PGA Championship, aimed at speeding the pace of play even as several top golfers worry it will do nothing or cause slowdowns instead.
"I certainly don't think it's going to speed pace of play up," Thomas said."Unless you hit it on another hole or some kind of crazy angle where it would take you a long time to get a yardage." "So you'll probably have the player shoot the pin, the caddie walk off the number because I'm going to want what's front, what's the pin.""It's going to help me when I hit it offline. We're not going to have to go to a sprinkler head and walk 40, 50 yards away," he said.
"Kiawah Island isn't some course where the greens are going to be really soft and you just see pin, hit pin. You're still going to need to get all that information, but then it's just going to add another element that's going to add time to the rounds in terms of shooting it with the rangefinder.
IF it speeds up play great. if it doesn't forget it.
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