With or without the merger, the PGA Tour will inevitably change! And these changes are not something the golf world expected Jay Monahan to make. What are we talking about? Well, the PGA Tour has proposed a lot of things for the 2026 season, from FedExCup points to decreased field sizes to reduce fines for slow play. The Monahan-led circuit has introduced a new memo, which is still in the works and, once voted for, will be a mandate in 2026. Because of this, the golf fans called out for Monahan’s resignation from the league.

Yet, despite Monahan & Co. reducing the slow fines significantly, from $50,000 to $10,000 for ‘Bad Times’ and $10,000 to $5,000 for an excessive shot time, the Tour cited the pace of play as the reason for the reduced field sizes. This was absurd for the 2009 US Open winner, Lucas Glover. The 44-year-old pro, in his interview with Sirius XM PGA Tour Radio, talked about the changes. And he was frustrated! He said, “Tour players, yes, you do affect the people you are playing with and the people behind you. That’s a selfish act. So, speed up.”

Many pros in the past, including Brian Harman, Patrick Cantlay, Akshay Bhatia, and others, have been accused of slow play. But instead of a consequence to such players, the Monahan-led Tour was changing the entire league so that it pushes golfers to play fast, which Glover could just not understand. He reprimanded the Tour and said, “The fact that the PGA Tour is hiding behind the guise of slow play to change these field sizes is the only way to do it; to limit the field under this more competition thing, that’s complete crap.”

Per the one-time major winner, reducing the field size from 156 to 144 would not guarantee that the golfers will start playing faster, and with reduced fines, there would actually be no threat that the golfers will try to avoid. So what’s the solution? Glover has a simple solution for all the drama.

Lucas Glover wants a punishment for the slow players

The fine is reduced significantly, but a monetary punishment is not the only thing that may push the golfers to play fast. Per the 2009 US Open champion, there is another thing that will undoubtedly improve the pace of play. Glover, being blunt for calling out the ‘signature events’ of the PGA Tour as “selfish and a money grab,” touted that as everyone says, “‘If you are going to have a complaint, have an answer.’ Alright, I have got you an answer,” which Glover expressed is to have a better policy.

As of now, a golfer gets a stroke penalty if they take excessive time—more than 40 seconds to hit a shot. But it is rarely an occasion that a pro is hit with a penalty. So maybe the PGA Tour has to reduce the time taken for a shot. And as Glover said, “Bad time, you get a [penalty stroke]. Two bad times, you get another [penalty stroke]. Like, add a shot to your score.” This would result in the slow golfer missing the cut, and they would not be able to make any money that week.

According to Glover, this type of penalty, which is consecutive, will push the golfer to speed up their play instead of the proposed reduced field sizes. Will these changes get implemented in 2026? As Billy Horschel said, the pack, aka Players Advisory Council, will discuss and decide, for which the voting would be on November 18th. Till then, the golf world can only wait patiently for the verdict.